Normally, I wouldn't have Coco Pops for breakfast

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Normally, I wouldn’t have Coco Pops for breakfast.
But they seemed a good choice when I embarked on a month-long scientific experiment.<br>The idea was to make ultra-processed food (UPF) 80 per cent of my daily diet, and then see whether it caused any changes in my body — such as increased inflammation or weight gai<br>p>As I opened the cereal packet, my three-year-old daughter Lyra said: ‘Is it for me?’ No, I told her — she was having porr<br>.‘I want the Mickey Mouse cereal!’ Lyra cried, pointing at Coco M<br>y.The packet had clearly been designed with a three-year-old in mind.

Lyra had never had Coco Pops before, but Kellogg’s already had her h<br>d. “>Again, I told her no, so she collapsed on the floor crying and screaming with rage.

Then, while I was seeing to her porridge, she crawled out from under the table, filled her bowl and started to eat great fistfuls of dry Coco Pops, wide-eyed and ecs<br>c.Defeated, I poured some milk into her bowl, then read out the UPF ingredients on the packet: glucose syrup, cocoa mass and flavourings.

The cereal also contained 20 per cent more salt per gram, I noted, than a typical microwave la<br>e.As I watched Lyra continue eating, it struck me she wasn’t fully in control. The pack said that a recommended serving for an adult is 30g (roughly a handful).

But 30g in, she’d hardly taken a breath. When I suggested one bowl was enough, the idea was instantly dismissed. It felt like advising a smoker to stick to one ciga<br>e.Tucking in myself, I found the first spoonful delicious. The texture of the first chocolatey mouthful is extraordinary, some of the ‘pops’ becoming chewy while others remain<br>sp.Just three spoons in, 부천역 치과 however, the joy was gone: what remained was a brown sludge.

Yet Lyra and I continued to crave our next mouthfuls, just like smokers crave the nex<br>ag.Her eating wasn’t just mindless: it was trance-like. She carried on until her belly was drum-taut. By the time she stopped, she’d consumed two adult servings: most of her day’s-worth of ca<br>es.My own consumption was even worse: instead of the recommended one portion, 부천역 치과 I’d effortlessly hoovered u<br>ve.In the past few decades, the replacement of traditional food with UPF has happened at a nearly unimaginable pace in terms of our evolutionary h<br>ry.At the same time, there’s been a staggering rise in rates of obesity — to the point where more than a quarter of children and half the adult population are currently ov<br>ight.<div class=”art-ins mol-factbox health floatRHS” data-version=”2″ id=”mol-72a4b720-e0a0-11ed-b1e2-f1c59103ed7d” website CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN: What happened when I ate ultra processed food?

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