{"id":10364,"date":"2024-07-30T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:27:57","slug":"a-look-into-ultraprocessed-foods-and-their-effect-on-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10364","title":{"rendered":"A Look Into Ultraprocessed Foods and Their Effect on Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was 9 a.m. on a Friday in March, and Ernest Jones III was hungry.<\/p>\n

From a hospital bed at a research facility at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, he surveyed his meal tray: Honey Nut Cheerios with fiber-enriched whole milk, a plastic-wrapped blueberry muffin and margarine.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimple, old school,\u201d one of those \u201cSaturday morning breakfasts from back in the day,\u201d said Mr. Jones, 38, who is studying to become a pastor.<\/p>\n

He was about halfway through his 28-day stay at the N.I.H., and Mr. Jones was one of 36 people participating in a nutrition trial that is expected to be completed in late 2025. For one month each, researchers will draw participants\u2019 blood, track their body fat and weight, measure the calories they burn, and feed them three meticulously designed meals per day.<\/p>\n

The subjects don\u2019t know it, but their job is to help answer some of the most pressing questions in nutrition: Are ultraprocessed foods harmful to health? Are they a major driver of weight gain and obesity? And why is it so easy to eat so many of them?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If researchers can answer these questions, they say, perhaps there are ways to make ultraprocessed foods healthier.<\/p>\n