Diet...Processed Foods and High Fat

The typical American diet—filled with processed foods like cookies and chips—may pack on more pounds than a high-fat diet. In a recent study, rats that ate a diet based on snack foods ate 30 percent more calories and gained almost double the weight of rats feed a high-fat diet.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also found the rats on the junk food diet had more tissue inflammation and were intolerant to glucose and insulin (warning signs of diabetes) than rats whose diets were high fat from lard.

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