There’s a great study out related to letting people eat processed foods, as much as they want, verses giving people healthy food… as much as they want.
Personally, I wonder if the salt alone is not part of the problem.
Those people who eat processed foods for the required 15 days, eat more and gained more weight.
This seemed like an exceptionally well designed study. One group did the 15 days healthy first, then junk-y food; the other group did the opposite.
NPR did a great go at the results of this study that was published in Cell magazine.
Looks like very good controls were used.
When on the ultra-processed foods diet, subjects eat more and eat more quickly. Really. The researchers thought that they might eat more rapidly because the processed foods required less chewing. All health and body weight markers sent along with the over-eating.
The supplement shows the menus each day for the ultra-processed foods and for the non-processed foods. Check out the pictures of 7-days of food each. Really interesting is the snacks in each case. Lay’s potato chips, Planter’s peanuts, Keebler’s cheese ‘n peanut butter crackers, etc. vs apples, almonds, etc.
As always in diet, the question is about organic vs. non-organic. First glance did not indicate organic on the healthy side?
Category: processed foods
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Processed Foods will Kill ya
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Shhh!!! Don't tell anyone it is healthy(er). With low(er) Salt.
Food Makers’ Secret Ingredient: Less Salt http://online.wsj.com/articles/food-companies-quietly-cut-salt-fat-from-recipes-1403566403
Thanks. But it is too bad it has to be a secret.
It is interesting how taistless and healthy seems to be synonimous to many people.
In the meanwhile, there is so much salt in things like soup, that even then “low salt” soups are 25 to 50% of US Daily recommended. And they are still not edible for those of us who have adjusted our salt pallet. You find yourself drinking gallons of water (or, worse, sodas) for the rest of the day.
Oh and Campbells slips in High Fructos sugar into all of the tomato soups we own as about the second ingredient. What is with that? Tomatoes are already sweet.
Enriched flower.
Of the Three Deadly White foods, sugar, salt and white flower, Campbells tomato soups seemed to have all three in the top 5 ingredients. Tomatos weren’t even the first ingredient in the regular tomato, paste was second!
Now we’ll see about donating these soups… And being even more careful with our food shopping.