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5 foods I got wrong - Tim Spector

ZOE Science & Nutrition

Is There a Chemical in This Ultra Processed Food?

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There are chemicals in this just to make sure that we're all following. As you said it's through our gut microbes which I think we need to think of as like these pharmacies where they're producing chemicals for us instead of our body. It doesn't cause cancer or anything but it does mess with your body and it does that we think through the gut microbes. The other convincing bit of evidence for me was a study from the NIH Kevin Hall's group where compared in a very strict environment in a lab people two different diets one matched for calories completely. They were both equally satisfying for the participants but the group that had the ultra processed equivalent kept saying they were hungrier and they went back to

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