Tag: processed food

Sweet little lies: How food companies hide the sugar of their food products from you

Randolph Jason

Sweet little lies: How food companies hide the sugar of their food products from you by: Melissa Smith for Natural News Consuming a lot of sugary food and drinks has been linked to dreadful diseases, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Unfortunately, despite these negative effects of sugar on health, a lot of people still consume sinful amounts of it. The average American may be eating around 15 teaspoons or 60 g of added sugar per day. But this isn’t because people are knowingly putting lots of sugar…

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Study: Heavily Processed Foods Cause Overeating And Weight Gain

Randolph Jason

Study: Heavily Processed Foods Cause Overeating And Weight Gain from Natural Blaze People eating ultra-processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate a minimally processed diet, according to results from a National Institutes of Health study. The difference occurred even though meals provided to the volunteers in both the ultra-processed and minimally processed diets had the same number of calories and macronutrients. The results were published in Cell Metabolism. This small-scale study of 20 adult volunteers, conducted by researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes…

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