Industrial foods? They make you eat a lot more, explain the researchers of the first study that compares a diet based on only industrial and processed foods versus a diet with natural and minimally processed foods.

WHAT ARE INDUSTRIAL FOODS: THE 5

All supermarket foods that have 5 or more ingredients on their list are processed foods.
All those with less than 5 ingredients are semi-industrial or natural.

Until now, the hypothesis was that industrial foods, containing sugar, fat and more salt as well as additives, were addictive.

But a scientific study had never been done that showed how much you risk eating more if you diet based on these foods, or with a large prevalence.

INDUSTRIAL FOODS: THE NEW HALL STUDIO

A study conducted by the famous doctor Kevin Hall , known for having recently debunked the myth that carbohydrate-free diets make you lose more weight than balanced ones, has in fact divided a sample of healthy subjects into two subgroups.

The first subgroup ate only industrial food for 2 weeks.
Fruit yoghurt, vegetable creams, snacks, biscuits, bread rolls, ready meals, supermarket ice creams, crackers, packaged juices.
The other subgroup ate only semi-industrial or natural foods.
Aged cheeses, milk, legumes, fruit, vegetables, cereals, including frozen ones, in jars or vacuum-packed, but without added ingredients.

Then they were placed on a normal, same-for-all diet for two weeks.

To ensure that they adhered to the first phase of the diet, they were transferred to a clinical facility, with a budget to buy food at the nearby supermarket, which was then checked by the researchers.
They also weren’t able to wear their clothes but loose suits, so that they wouldn’t notice that they had gained or lost weight during the experiment.
The calories were recorded starting from the meals consumed in a common room. The calories of the leftover food left on the plate were deducted.

This means that the study has an objective validity , because it was not based on the questionnaires, and did not leave the participants free to go home, with the risk that they could eat differently but followed their entire food path without leaving anything for them. case. Here’s what happened.