Is Obesity Caused By Processed Foods?

🍔Are processed foods responsible for obesity? 🍕

A relatively new study (2 years) was conducted by Hall and colleagues. It is extremely intensive on participants (locked in a lab for a month) and so provides quite sensitive results. 
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Basically, to summarise, researchers found that diets higher in ultra-processed foods lead to increased energy intake weight gain, and increases in several other metabolic risk factors. 

But this finding wasn't because processed foods are poisonous or inherently fattening.

It was because they promote the excessive intake of energy. 

Why? 

Well, the study showed that on average, the ultra-processed diet had almost twice the energy density of the non-processed diet.

This meant that participants needed to eat almost double the quantity of food to get the same amount of calories when in the non-processed diet phase. 

Why does that matter? 

Well, the volume of food consumed is one of the primary factors responsible for your fullness and satiety levels.

​These, in turn, will impact your immediate and later food intake, and thus calories. 

Therefore, the more full a food or meal makes you, the less likely you'll be to over consume. 

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If you have any questions or want the link to the study, be sure to send me a message! 

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