324 ND Are Food Additives Making Us Fat?

Nutrition Diva

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🗓️ 10 March 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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New research shows that common food additives may not be as harmless as we thought. Nutrition Diva explains how the latest research in microbiology is changing the way we think about nutrition and health. Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1GFZv4W

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to the Nutrition Divas Quick and Dirty Tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.
0:11.0	Several of you asked me to comment on the recent research that linked common food additives to obesity,
0:18.0	type 2 diabetes, and inflammatory bowel syndromes.
0:22.0	What should we do about emulsifiers? wrote Robert, sounding just a
0:25.6	wee bit panicked. I don't know where to begin. Now for those of you may have missed
0:29.8	the headlines, researchers found that two compounds that are widely used in food processing
0:35.7	caused weight gain, blood sugar problems, and inflammatory bowel disease in mice.
0:42.2	A couple of qualifiers are in order here. The mice were fed very large
0:46.1	quantities of the additives, much more than you would ever be exposed to, even on a diet
0:50.8	composed entirely of processed foods.
0:53.2	And the only mice that developed the inflammatory bowel disease
0:56.8	were mice that are genetically predisposed to that condition.
1:00.4	The study did not find evidence that these additives are causing weight gain or disease in humans.
1:06.0	Nonetheless, the headlines definitely send a lot of people scrambling to their fridges and pantries to scan labels. The two compounds used in
1:15.8	the recent study, carboxy methyl cellulose and polysorbate 80 are both
1:21.7	emulsifiers. There are at least a dozen other emulsifiers that are also
1:26.3	used in food processing and I bet the scientists might have produced similar results
1:30.6	from any of them. These just happen to be the two that they focused on.
1:35.1	Emulsifiers are used in all kinds of processed foods,
1:37.8	such as yogurt, ice cream, and salad dressing,
1:41.0	to enhance the texture and to keep the ingredients from separating in the
1:45.1	container. And for decades they've enjoyed GRAS status, ingredients that are
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