The consumption of processed foods may lead to a minimum-such as those cooked at home from raw ingredients-to facilitate weight loss during a diet.Credit
A study found that eating super -prepared foods may hinder weight loss attempts even when the diet is compatible with national food recommendations for food.
The study, published in Nature Medicine On August 41The lack of focus on the UPFS effect on national food recommendations in the UK – where the study was conducted – elsewhere, the authors say.
UPFS are products that have been developed by combining food excerpts, additives and industrial components. The result is cheap, profitable and accessible nutrients.
It is fixed that the salt content and high sugar content of many UPFS makes unhealthy products, but some research suggested that how to process them can have a role.
The motive behind this study is to address a gap in national food recommendations and do so in the daily environment of the participants. “It will be the longest experience of the UPF diet so far. It’s the first to do it in the real world to try to implement all these behavioral effects” associated with daily life.
In the United Kingdom, more than half of the energy comes in the regular diet of the UPFS, with similar personalities elsewhere in Europe and the United States.
Social and economic factors
UPFS may be affordable for less alternatives to less improper effect on people from low -income areas. “Issues about diet and obesity related to this [UPFs] “It is largely associated with social and economic inequality,” Dicken says, adding that people may have unhealthy food meals not because they are not trying to eat healthy, but “because our food environment only puts us to fail.”
The study has studied UPFS effects on 55 adults on a diet based on national dietary guidance in the United Kingdom. Participants have followed a 8 -week diet based on manufactured foods (MPFS) and an 8 -week diet based on UPFS, with a 4 -week period between the two, as the participants returned to their usual diet. Both diets follow the EatWell guide in the United Kingdom, which focuses on food groups and large nutrients, including fat, protein and carbohydrates. During both phases, the participants took all meals, snacks and drinks that are delivered to their homes, but they can choose the amount to be eaten at any time, and when it was consumed.
The researchers found that the weight of the participants and the physical mass index decreased during both phases. However, participants lost more than twice weight – 1.84 kg on average, compared to 0.88 kg – with MPF system followers. The changes occurred in the formation of the body, such as the decrease in the mass of fats, the percentage of fat in the body and the graphic category on the MPF system but not on UPF. The cravings of MPF diet also decreased.