Foods such as cereal or protein bars can be purchased home or purchased and can contain ultra-tail ingredients
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It seems that you can lose weight while eating ultra -transformed foods – but to a lesser extent if you cut them.
Food is generally considered to be ultra-transformed if it includes ingredients that are never or rarely used in kitchens, such as high fructose corn syrup, or additives that make the product more pleasant to taste or attractive, such as aromas and thicknesses.
Many studies have linked to eating ultra-transformed foods to negative health results, such as cardiovascular problems, type 2 diabetes and weight gain, but these studies have been observational. Ultra-transformed foods also tend to be rich in sugar, salt or fat-such as cookies and microwaves-causing a debate on the fact that it is simply the ingredients that make ultra-transformed food unhealthy or if there is something intrinsically harmful to the transformation itself.
To better understand this in the context of weight loss, Samuel Dicken at the University College of London and his colleagues carried out a trial in which 55 people who were overweight or had obesity were randomized to take a diet of ultra-very or processed food.
“Obviously, everyone imagines pizzas, fries and this kind of thing when they think of ultra-transformed foods,” explains Dicken. However, the researchers made sure that the two regimes aligned with the UK Eatwell guide, which encourages a healthy and balanced diet which includes at least five portions of fruits and vegetables per day and several protein sources, such as beans, fish, eggs and meat. The two regimes were also paired so that they contained roughly the same levels of fat, sugar, salt and carbohydrates.
Food was delivered to participants, making it the first try to compare these diets in real conditions, rather than in a hospital or a laboratory. With the ultra-suitable group, this involved things like breakfast cereals, protein bars, chicken sandwiches and ready-to-use lasagna, but low-fat and salt versions. “The kind of food that if you go to a supermarket, they are slapped from nutritional health complaints,” explains Dicken.
The mini-transformed diet included homemade foods such as overnight oats, chicken salad, zero-based bread and Bolognais spaghetti. The two groups received enough food for around 4000 calories per day and they were told to eat as much as they wanted. The researchers installed it so that half of the participants follow a diet for eight weeks, half of the other, then they changed after a four -week break.
Participants were informed that the study was studying the effects on the health of balanced meals prepared in different ways, rather than looking for weight loss specifically, but the two diets have still led people to lose weight: the mini-transformed diet resulted in an average reduction of 2% of weight and the ultra-work diet has resulted in a 1% reduction.
“We have seen more weight loss on the mini-transformed diet, and that is not only that, we have also seen a greater fat loss and also a greater reduction in envy,” explains Dicken.
Researchers also examined other health measures and found that the mini-transformed diet reduced the amount of fat in their body and its blood levels. Perhaps surprisingly, the ultra-suitable diet has led to lower levels of low density lipoproteins or “bad” cholesterol.
However, Ciarán Forde at Wageningen University in the Netherlands claims that the ultra-adjustment diet was more dense in calories than the minimum diet, which could have caused the difference in weight loss. “The fundamental question remains unanswered about the type of treatment or ingredient that stimulates the effects observed,” he says.
Forde adds that it is not surprising that the participants lost weight since they were overweight or had obesity to start, then followed a healthy diet. This may mean that weight loss results do not apply to the wider population.
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