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Question:
The food we eat today are healthier than the food we ate in the past.

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I disagree with this. Our food today is packed with way more harmful chemicals than in the past. People used to cook at home more often, making meals from scratch. Food today also contains an overload of unhealthy ingredients, in portion sizes that are too large.
If you look at any food label today and read the ingredients list, you are bound to see words you have no idea how to pronounce. Even more, you don't have the slightest clue what they are. These are chemicals and preservatives. They do a range of things—make food last longer while it sits on the shelf, make flavors stronger, make the production of the food cheaper and easier. But really, they are entirely unnatural. They help the food companies, not the people who actually eat the food. Putting them in our bodies day after day cannot be healthy! Food, of course, didn't used to contain such chemicals. Their ingredients were solely what we had in our kitchens.
However, the unfortunate truth is that people don't cook at home as often as they used to. They don't have the patience. In the past, when meals were cooked at home, we knew exactly what was going into them. Everything was fresh and wholesome. But now, it is way too easy to grab some microwavable dinners at the store or some instant noodle packs. They're faster to cook, but contain a lot of nasty and mysterious stuff.
It's not just chemicals and preservatives, either. We've become spoiled when it comes to flavors in this modern age. We want our candy not just sweet, but extremely sweet, with way more sugar per serving than is healthy. Our canned soups are ridiculously salty. Our meats are rich and fattening. And portion sizes are huge! Simply put, we're eating mass quantities of food that contains too many unhealthy elements.
That's why I think that our food is less healthy than it was in the past. So much of it is filled with chemicals and preservatives. So much of it is pre-packaged instead of being cooked at home. And even the natural ingredients, like salt and sugar, are overloaded into the foods for the sake of flavor, to the point of being unhealthy.