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Multiple reasons, among the most important: Modern processed foods have very little fiber and other non-processed parts, making you full slower causing you to
by dtech 5y ago
Multiple reasons, among the most important:
Modern processed foods have very little fiber and other non-processed parts, making you full slower causing you to overeat. A glass of coke has 140 calories, and so has 2-3 apples. You'll stop eating after 3 apples but can easily have 2 glasses of coke.
The above also causes blood sugar to spike drastically immediately after eating processed foods, causing you to create a high amount of insulin, drastically lowering blood sugar and creating fat. Low blood sugar then causes you to become hungry soon after. This is the famous "hungry 2 hours after eating McDonalds" efffect. Non-processed foods are digested much more gradual.
The calories are more empty. Lots of sugar and fat, not much protein and micro-nutrients like minerals and vitamins.
They are made so you can't stop eating them, e.g. bliss point [1]. They hack our reward centers to so it feels so good to eat you'll overeat. You wouldn't eat 20 sugar cubes in one sitting but will eat a tub of Ben and Jerry's.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> [...] very little fiber [...] making you full slower [...] You'll stop eating after 3 apples [...] Every time someone repeats this sort of thing I have to laugh to myself a little. If only it were so easy to keep my body from constantly craving more calories!
- acchow 5y ago> If only it were so easy to keep my body from constantly craving more calories Try protein shakes. Or other high-protein foods. But if you've made your body accustomed to a diet high in simple carbs (esp sugars), you need to break that cycle as well.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoDo you think that in my decade or so of experience in losing about half my body weight, I never thought to try changing my diet? It is very irksome to me when people try to hand out nutrition advice on the internet like they know goddamned anything about it. I successfully lost over 150lbs and I never found a solution to not craving food constantly.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoWere you craving food or just...something to do? Personally, I smoke, which is no better but I feel is likely a similar addiction? Gandhi generalized even further, realizing that he was "addicted to experience" - I think about this often.
- moistly 5y agoIf you drop a snark in the thread, you really don’t have cause for being irked when someone else snarks back. You brought it on yourself.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoHow likely do you suppose it is that trite dietary advice will improve the life of someone who just expressed disdain for trite dietary advice?
- acchow 5y agoI wasn't aware it was trite? I only discovered about a year ago the wonders of how protein shakes totally transform my body. In addition to the dramatic changes on my physique, I also find myself almost completely lost my urge to snack. I'm in my mid-30s.
- gilbetron 5y agoIf you are interested, we can break down what you typically eat during the day and help find out what causes you to feel that way - I'm far from an expert but there a lot of common things I used to eat that made me hungry all the time.
- worik 5y agoPossibly related in some mysterious way to the bacteria living on your gut.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoAnd/or to unidentified nutritional deficiencies.