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Hooked
Part of 16/17

re starting to understand.
Specifically the problem may be that your digestive system cannot calculate how many calories there are in highly-processed foods. This might not sound like a big deal but it is. Whenever you eat a meal your stomach can accurately judge how many calories the meal contains. Your body then uses this information to decide how many to store as fat and how many to burn off through your metabolism. So if your body can’t calculate how many calories are in a meal then your metabolism can’t function properly and too many calories are stored as fat.
So even though the processed food industry has cut the number of calories in its products those products may still cause people to gain weight.
Final summary
The key message in these blinks:
Processed food gets us hooked in lots of different ways. From childhood memories of enjoying junk to the sheer variety of sugar-packed products it can be almost impossible for some people to make healthy choices. Families have