Bethesda, MD.
From a large bowl of salads to the platter of meatballs and spaghetti sauce, SRISATTA has left his way through nutrition studies aimed at understanding the health effects of ultra -turmoil. 70% or more US food supply. He allowed the AP communication to achieve tags for a day.
“Today’s lunch was chicken nuggets, some chips, and some ketchups. “I was quite satisfactory.”
To investigate exactly why the nuggets are so satisfactory, the goal of the expected study led by Kevin Hall, the National Institute of Health and Nutrition.
The Hall said, “What we want is to find out what the mechanism is so that we can understand the process better.
HALL’s study relies on 24/7 measurements of patients, not its own data, to investigate whether ultra -light foods are consumed, gain weight, and potentially led. In obesity And other well -documented health problems. And what if they do that?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. When health ministers make nutrition and chronic diseases a key priority, the answer cannot soon come.
Kennedy aimed for processed foods as a major cause of various diseases that bother the United States, especially children. He sweared in the Senate Confirmation Focus on removing such foods at school lunch for children.
Just as obesity and other foods have increased, ultra -fine foods have exploded in recent decades.
Foods with high fat, sodium and sugar are often cheap and mass -produced, and contain colors and chemicals that are not found in household kitchens. Consider sugar cereals, potato chips, frozen pizza, soda and ice cream.
The research has been connected Minor food It may have a negative health effect, but it is uncertain whether it is a real processing of foods that are not nutrients that contain it.
small 2019 Analysis HALL and his colleagues found that the irritated foods made about 500 calories a day more than when they ate diets of untouched foods.
The new study aims to replicate and expand its research and test new theories on the effects of ultra -fine foods. One food contains incomprehensible combinations of fat, sugar, sodium and carbohydrates (fat, sugar, sodium and carbohydrates), causing more people to eat more. The other is that the food contains more calories per bite, so you can consume more without realizing it.
To harass these answers, you need to identify, collect and analyze the data in the amount of millions of dollars that are estimated to have volunteers and health and diet professionals, such as SRISATTA.
For a month in NIH, SRISATTA sports monitors on wrists, ankles, and waist, tracking all movements and regularly abandoning 14 vials. Once a week, he spent 24 hours to a small room with a sensor to measure how the body used food, water and air. He was allowed to go outside, but only by the director to prevent snacks.
SRISATTA said, “I actually feel so bad.
He could eat as much as he liked. Sara Turner, a NIH nutritionist who designed food planning, said he had sprinkled wheels with his room three times a day to meet the exact requirements of the study. In the basement of the NIH building, the team sent the food to srisatta and other participants before carefully measuring, weight, slice and cooking.
“The challenge is that all nutrients work, but they still look good and look good.”
The result of the trial is expected at the end of this year, but the preliminary results are interesting. The Hall reported that the first 18 test participants ate about 1,000 calories a day, ate foods with minimal processed foods, and ate more ultra -tier diets with high -density and energy that led to weight gain.
When the qualities were revised, consumption decreased even if food was considered fine, Hall said. The data is still collected from the remaining participants and must be completed, analyzed and posted in the colleague review journal.
Nevertheless, the initial result suggests that although ultrasound is still eating more than 80% of calories, it is “almost normalized.”
Not everyone agrees with the method of the hall or the meaning of his research.
Dr. David Ludwig, a endocrine scholar and researcher of Boston Children’s Hospital, criticized Hall’s 2019 study as “default in a short period of time.” Scientists have long knew that people can eat more for a long time, but the effect has quickly weakened, he said.
Ludwig, who has insisted that the consumption of highly processed carbohydrates is “the main cause,” and that the focus on food processing becomes “distracting,” said, “If they are persistent, they will get the answer to obesity.”
He demanded a larger and better -designed research that lasts for at least two months, and the “cleaning” period has separated the effects of Korean diet with the following. Otherwise, Ludwig said, “We waste energy and mislead science.”
Marion Nestle, a nutritionist and food policy expert, said that concerns about the short period of research could be valid.
“To solve this problem, Hall needs funds to carry out longer research with more people,” he said.
According to the Senate document, NIH consists of about $ 2 billion annually in nutrition research and about 5%of the total budget.
At the same time, the agency reduced the capacity of metabolic units in which the investigator carried out such research, reducing the number of beds that should be shared among researchers. Two participants who are currently registered in the center and the two participants planned next month are the most common halls for the most holes at once.
Srisatta, a Florida volunteer who hopes to be an emergency doctor, said he wanted to know more about how processed foods affect human health when they participated in this trial.
“I know that it is better for everyone not to eat processed foods.” He said. “But it is important to support the evidence in a way that the public can easily digest,” he said.
HHS officials did not respond to Kennedy’s intentions on NIH’s nutritional research. Like many other people in the federal government, the agency is buffeted by the cost reduction of the supervision of President Donald Trump and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk.
Jerold Mande, a former federal food policy advisor of the three administrations, said that Kennedy’s goal is to solve the disease. He has proposed a proposal for 50 -bed facilities where government nutrition scientists can accept and feed volunteers like Sri Sats.
Mande said, “If you want to make the United States healthy and deal with chronic diseases, you need better science.
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