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.
Oh, I thought it was climate change (snicker).
Get rid of high fructose corn syrup. It is used to fatten cattle and by aliens to fatten humans.
It's the fact that they all taste so damn good!
And yes, white rice tastes better and is less gummy than brown rice, and regular pasta works better with meals than whole wheat.
So if I die because of flavor and texture, then so be it.
Well, that explains why that 1971 box of Captain Crunch I found in the back of the cupboard still tastes like the day it was made.
Or it could be mutations from the electric shocks they used to convert the adult cells to stem cells.
Yeah but will it hurt the roof of your mouth?
Oatmeal is the only cereal consumed in my home a few times a week.
Dr. C. Esselstyn is the guy that put Clinton on a plant based diet. He fanatically shouts “NO OIL” in one of his youtube presentations.
How do you eat salad and cook veggies with no oil?
Does thew quack bar the First Rapist from sunflower seeds, peanuts and olives? All contain oil. Hopefully he helps shorten Willy's sick existence
And chicken is increasingly form China and being processed by muslims.
I think he means added oil.
His son Rip (not R.I.P) also has a few videos showing how he put his fellow firefighters on a veggie diet. Looks very good, but I use oil in everything when I cook.
Five minutes from 2009 Today show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqa0Oea5t4
#9. Have you seen the movie “Killer Tomatoes”? If not, do so. You’ll never eat another tomato, but they might eat you.
Without ketchup, life is not worth living.
You want fries with that?
No more COCO PUFFS?
Yea, who would have ever thought blasting abrasive could be so addictively tasty!?
What a pile.....not that i dont care about the effect of chemicals on our systems...but...these are induced pluripotent cells...we dont know if they behave exactly like natural cells...also this test is in the lab...the cells tested are not subject to local biochemical effects which could be seen in whole human bodies...did they test the cells for any other endocrine disruptors...? How did they know the disruptors cause us to eat more? Could disruption make us eat less.....were the lab cells exposed to amounts that exceed commonly encountered blood concentrations in Human tissue?...doesnt sound like a real complete biochemical analysis....wait for the movie... Video at 11....
bfl
“Chemicals Found in Cereal Is Making Us Obese: Study”
Why is grammar so hard for journalists? It’s “Chemicals Found Are Making Us Obese”.
You cannot carry fat across the cell walls and store it without glucose in the blood stream driving an insulin response. Common biolological knowledge is very uncommon these days.
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