What makes you fat the most, a diet based on sugar or based on fat ? Two American twins, Chris and Xand van Tulleken, aged 35 and both doctors, have lent their bodies to science to answer this question. Under the eye of BBC channel for a month, Xand went on a fat diet with only 5% sugar, while Chris went for the reverse diet, high in carbohydrate with no more than 5% fat.
Surprise! They both lost weight. Scientists believe that the problem is neither in fat nor in sugar, but in the mixture of the two. American professor Paul Kenny of the Scripps Institute explains in the video that: “Feeding rats on a basis high in sugar or fat never really affected their daily habits or their health. But give them chocolate, cookies. and cheesecake which are about 50% fat and 50% sweet, and their behavior will change drastically. They then stop eating anything else, force-feed themselves and gain weight. Their self-system. regulation that normally prevented them from overeating seemed to have been turned off. “
Ready-to-eat foods would therefore be the most harmful for the line. To be banned: chips, cakes, frozen meals and sodas. Easier said than to do…
