{"id":128470,"date":"2024-11-21T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128470"},"modified":"2024-11-21T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:41:00","slug":"i-cut-out-ultra-processed-food-for-a-week-heres-how-my-mind-body-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128470","title":{"rendered":"I Cut Out Ultra-Processed Food For A Week. Here\u2019s How My Mind &#038; Body Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Ultra-processed food<\/em>. You\u2019re probably sick of hearing the phrase. You\u2019ve probably started tuning it out, along with words like \u201cmicrobiome\u201d and \u201canti-inflammatory.\u201d <em>What do you mean by \u201cultra-processed food\u201d?<\/em> You might have thought a few times (or maybe that was just me, last week.) <em>Isn\u2019t every food item processed?<\/em> <em>Why does it matter to what degree, or how many times\u2014a sandwich is still a sandwich, am I right girls??<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was like you once (again, last week). But then I started taking a closer look at this buzzword, and realized that maybe I was missing something. Ultra-processed foods, or UPFs\u2014account for around <a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/9\/10\/e027546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">57%<\/a> of all calories consumed in many countries, more so among children and less affluent populations, which have been linked to all manner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/384\/bmj-2023-077310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diseases and adverse health outcomes<\/a>, from dementia to cancer to depression and type 2 diabetes. And yet, we\u2019re gobbling them up like Pacman. All of this \u201cfood\u201d that I thought I was eating, was actually, lo and behold, eating <em>me<\/em>. There was only one thing for it: I was going to cut out UPFs for a week, and see if anything changed.<\/p>\n<p>But first: what is a UPF and why are they so bad? The definition is a little blurry, but Dr. Chris van Tulleken, author of <em>Ultra-Processed People<\/em>, says this: \u201cIf it\u2019s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn\u2019t usually find in a standard home kitchen, it\u2019s UPF.\u201d In other words, if there\u2019s an ingredient that you don\u2019t recognize as \u201cnormal\u201d food, then it\u2019s probably what Tulleken calls an \u201cindustrially-produced edible substance\u201d (think additives, emulsifiers, and modified starches). And why are these unhealthy? Well, we don\u2019t <em>fully<\/em> know yet, but the idea is that human bodies probably aren\u2019t built for consuming industrial chemical additives en masse. All very interesting, of course, but what does this mean in practical terms? Now, onto the experiment\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Days one to three<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019d think that cutting out UPFs would be easy. All you have to do is <em>not<\/em> eat loads of gummy bears and American cheese. Hardly difficult for a health-conscious woman such as myself. Oh, how wrong I was. The first three days were particularly hard. No sliced bread or oatmeal. No packaged sandwiches from the bodega on my lunch break or chocolate rice cakes for that afternoon kick. At one point, a colleague offered me the remnants of her iced bun and I looked at her as if she was trying to murder me. Which, in a roundabout way, she was.<\/p>\n<p>A strange thing happens when you give up UPFs, which is that you also incidentally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/too-much-sugar-signs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut out a lot of sugar<\/a>. I\u2019d usually have a cookie in the evening while watching <em>The Hills<\/em>, or grab a Coke for a midday caffeine hit. Without as much sugar, I became desperate for it, spooning great globules of honey in my herbal tea (honey is processed, just not ultra-processed) and mainlining bananas as if they were an addictive drug. \u201cPlease, can I have one of your chewy vitamin supplements?\u201d I asked my grandmother over the weekend, who snatched them away because they contain something called \u201csodium citrate\u201d and also \u201ccarnauba wax,\u201d which is also used for polishing shoes.<\/p>\n<h2>Days three to five<\/h2>\n<p>My sugar cravings started to die down around day three (not because I wasn\u2019t eating sugar, but because I discovered that dark chocolate wasn\u2019t a UPF, and therefore could get my fix that way). If you\u2019re interested in what else I was eating, it was mainly a lot of rice, vegetables, fish, meat, and sourdough bread. Lunches were tricky because it\u2019s just not convenient to constantly bring packed lunches to work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/ultra-processed-food-mind-body-changed\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-processed food. You\u2019re probably sick of hearing the phrase. You\u2019ve probably started tuning it out, along with words like \u201cmicrobiome\u201d and \u201canti-inflammatory.\u201d What do you mean by \u201cultra-processed food\u201d? 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