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Fast Food?
Here's another article on fast food, and why it's bad for American's health
and the world.
Our western fast food is spreading around the world and one should take
notice of the dangers associated with this activity that benefits the
corporations mostly, and not the consumer.
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Why Fast Food Make You Get Fat
15 February - Health News - Arabic
ISLAMABAD: The nutritional make up of fast food
encourages people to gorge on it unintentionally, increasing their
risk of obesity, research suggests.
Experts at the Medical Research Council found most fast food is very
dense in calories - you only need a small amount to bump up your
calorific intake.
They found that these "energy dense" foods can fool people into
consuming more calories than the body needs. The research is published
in the journal Obesity Reviews.
A typical fast food meal has a very high energy density. It is more
than one and a half times higher than an average traditional British
meal and two and a half times higher than a traditional African meal.
The researchers concluded that a diet high in fast foods will increase
a person’s risk of weight gain and obesity - even though they may feel
that they are eating no more than they would if they ate an average
meal.
Researcher Professor Andrew Prentice, of the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, said: "We all possess a weak innate ability to
recognize foods with a high energy density.
"We tend to assess food intake by the size of the portion, yet a fast
food meal contains many more calories than a similar-sized portion of
a healthy meal.
"Since the dawn of agriculture, the systems regulating human appetite
have evolved for the low energy diet still being consumed in rural
areas of the developing world where obesity is almost non-existent.
"Our bodies were never designed to cope with the very energy dense
foods consumed in the West and this is contributing to a major rise in
obesity."
Professor Prentice drew particular attention to the consequences of a
diet high in fast foods for children.
"Children have not yet developed any of the learned dietary restraint
that needs to be exerted by anyone wishing to remain slim in the
modern environment.
"It’s surely a stark paradox that the strategy used to achieve rapid
weight gain in malnourished children in Africa - the frequent offering
of energy-dense foods - has now become the norm for many overweight
children in affluent societies."
Dr Susan Jebb, of the MRC Human Nutrition Research Centre, said: "In
many outlets, the choice is so limited that it’s virtually impossible
to select a combination of items with even a moderate energy density.
"You’d need to eat well below the portion size offered to avoid
greatly exceeding recommended energy and fat requirements.
"Fast food companies could play a major part in halting the rise in
obesity if they adopted a more positive attitude to healthy eating
such as providing meals of lower energy density, appropriately
marketed and with point-of-sale nutrition labeling."
Dr Jebb said many supermarket ready-meals and convenience foods were
also very energy dense.
"If we’re going to stem the tide of obesity, it’s important that we
don’t just swap one unhealthy meal for another.
"Research has shown time and again that to maintain a healthy weight,
we need to eat foods with less fat and added sugars and to take more
exercise." |
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