If television was our only reference for food would consume 25 times more sugar and 20 times more fat than our body needs.
Our diets would be full of sugar and fat but not include virtually no fruits or vegetables, according to researchers at the University Armstrong Atlantic in Savannah, Georgia, who discussed what would happen if someone ate 2,000 calories a day of foods that are advertised on television.
If you remember Morgan Spurlock’s experiment with his documentary “Supersize Me ‘, you know what a junk food intake can cause so much.
The research team led by Michael Mink, analyzed the food advertised during 84 hours of prime time television and broadcast for 12 hours on Saturday morning for a month in 2004.
According to this analysis, a daily diet of foods from the television ads include the following:
- 25 times more sugar than recommended
- 20 times the recommended fat
- Less than half of the recommended fruits and vegetables
“The results of this study suggest that foods advertised on television tend to provide an excess of nutrients associated with chronic diseases such as saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, and offer much less of the nutrients required to protect against diseases, such as fiber, vitamins A, E and D, calcium and potassium, “Mink said in a press release.
The results of this research were published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
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