Losing weight Low-fat diet products complicate weight loss and promote body fat

High sugar in diet products causes health problems
At the present time, most people pay attention to a healthy body weight. For this reason, many sufferers consume low-fat diet products. Researchers have now found that many of these diet foods contain less fat but are high in sugar and can cause health problems. In addition, the increased sugar content makes losing weight difficult.

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that low-fat diet products usually contain too much sugar, making it difficult to lose weight. Consumers are even building up easier body fat. The doctors published a press release on the results of their study.

Some people find it very difficult to lose weight and achieve a healthy body weight. Those affected often start taking special low-fat diet foods. However, physicians found that this very form of nutrition can lead to increased fat production. (Image: BillionPhotos.com/fotolia.com)

Diet products can cause liver damage and brain inflammation
Many diet foods contain little fat but elevated levels of sugar. The experts found in their current research that rats develop more body fat in such a low-fat but very sugary diet than rats with a balanced diet. The excess sugar in diet products can also cause problems such as liver damage and brain inflammation, the researchers explain.

Diet foods can lead to obesity
Most low-fat diet products contain an increased amount of sugar, say the physicians. Although such products give the impression that they are healthy for the human body. However, the reality is that these foods can damage the liver and also lead to obesity, explains author Professor Krzysztof Czaja from the University of Georgia.

Experimental animals were divided into three groups
The animals in the trial were divided into different groups with different diets. These groups included: Low in fat and sugary, low in fat and high in sugar, and a normal, balanced diet. The doctors looked at how these diets affected weight, fat and health.

Drastic buildup of liver fat detected
Both groups with a high sugar intake had massively increased levels of liver fat, body weight and body fat. These values ​​were sometimes twice as high as compared to the animals in the balanced group. The buildup of liver fat is particularly alarming because it causes the same amount of damage as alcoholics, the researchers emphasize.

Unbalanced diet leads to chronic swelling in the intestine
The unbalanced diet also caused chronic swelling in the gut and brain. The additional pressure on the brain caused damage that hindered the so-called gut-brain communication line, the scientists explain. This communication line usually gives us the feeling of a full stomach.

Damage found seems to be long term
The detected brain changes that resulted from the unbalanced diet could be long-term in nature, researchers suggest. It is not yet known if the effects of a balanced diet are reversible.

Low-fat diet leads to a significantly increased production of body fat
What is really worrying about the findings is the drastically increased production of body fat in rats with a low-fat diet, the experts say. Although these animals did not actually consume significantly more calories than the rats with a balanced diet. But they need less than half the calories to build the same amount of body fat, the authors explain. In other words, the production of body fat was twice as high. The animals took much easier to weight and body fat when consuming the low-fat diet products. The resulting increased fat deposits on the liver in turn lead to serious health problems, such as an increased risk of dangerous diseases of the liver. (As)