Posted on 08/12/2017 8:07:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You may want to rethink having that bowl of corn flakes for breakfast.
New research by experts at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles show that cereal is making people obese.
Published in the journal of Nature Communications, the paper states that chemical ingredients commonly used in breakfast cereals are having distressing effects on our bodies.
Looking at the effects of three different chemicals commonly ingested or exposed to humans, they found that each one was damaging the hormones needed to communicate between our brains and our stomach.
When all three were combined, the damage was worse.
One of the three chemicals used in the study was butylhydroxytoluene (BHT), which is an antioxidant used in many breakfast cereals to preserve taste and appearance and prevent them from turning rancid. The chemical is also found in other food products such as certain brands of cookies and chips.
Dr. Dhruv Sareen, assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the leader of the study, pointed out something concerning about the food additive.
“Of the three chemicals tested, BHT produced some of the strongest detrimental effects,” Sareen said in a statement.
The researchers took blood samples from adults and converted them into stem cells that could then be grown into the tissue that lines our gut. They also grew neuronal tissues from the part of our brain that controls our appetite and metabolism.
The chemicals were then tested both one by one and combined and all results led to damaging effects on the hormones controlling gut to brain communication. They also found that the chemicals were damaging mitochondria in the body which converts food and oxygen into energy and drives the body’s metabolism.
When these systems break down, our body is unable to know when it’s truly full, causing us to overeat and gain weight.
“This is a landmark study that substantially improves our understanding of how endocrine disruptors may damage human hormonal systems and contribute to the obesity epidemic in the U.S.,” said Clive Svendsen, director of the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute.
BHT has long been discussed as a potentially harmful additive but past studies never looked at the effects on humans. This would be the first time that researchers can confirm that BHT, tributyltin (TBT), and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are negatively affecting our hormones and our waistlines.
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Yep. The main ingredient in Round up is in almost all the cereals, crackers, snack foods etc.
I never was fond of cereal, but the only “snack” foods I eat these days are organic Tostido chips.
Our local Walmart has finally started stocking some organic stuff, and I notice that we now have uncured bacon with no nitrates, so it’s a step forward.
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