Dear MEL Topic Readers,
What happened when I ate ultra-processed food for a month
Ultra-processed food does impair your physical health and brain functions as presented in Topic Reading-Vol.3329 on May 23, 2021. But how much harm does it actually cause to your health, weight, or brain? In fact, it is estimated that over half of the energy from food comes from such processed food in the UK, where one in four adults and one in five children are obese. So, one British doctor and a TV presenter of a food program tried to find out the effects of an ultra-processed food diet for himself. Having increased ultra-processed food intake from 30 percent to 80 percent for a month, he gained seven kilograms and became overweight. He experienced poor sleep, heartburn, unhappy feelings, anxiety, sluggishness, and low libido. Sounds bad enough to realize how unhealthy processed foods are. Other studies found that consumption of ultra-processed food increases the hormone that makes you feel hungry and decrease the one that makes you feel full. Thus, people eat more and even faster because processed foods are easy to eat. Furthermore, since ultra-processed foods are carefully engineered, produced, and marketed, they are quite palatable and attractive. You can be easily addicted to such convenient and fulfilling food. What should you do?
Enjoy reading the article and find how you should manage your diet.
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