This is like the Mexican coke argument all over again. Everybody wants there to be an industrial bogeyman to blame for American nutritional health problems. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could fix problems for people simply by replacing industrial corn syrup with wholesome cane sugar?

Of course, there is literally no difference healthwise between the two products. But that's hard to hear. It means you have to accept that sweetened soft drinks are just bad for you, full stop, and you have to treat them the same way you'd treat alcohol (I said, as an enthusiastic social drinker).

So it goes with UPFs writ large. Wouldn't it be great if we could just make our foods wholesome and pure and not "chemical factories"? In fact: it would make essentially no difference to our health; in fact it would be a health problem if it led people to believe that bakery outputs were healthful and stabilized unsweetened skyr was dangerous.

The entire problem here is that we've gotten incredibly good at engineering food for hyperpalatability, which leads people to make truly bad choices about what to eat habitually. You could reasonably regulate that practice! But you'd want to find a way to do it without doing Mercola science and taking healthful, affordable shelf-stable products off the shelves for no reason.

Your "no profit in hyperpalatable foods" thing, I don't get at all. Maybe if you tried to explain it again. Sounds like the opposite of the truth.