British researchers recently discovered that people are getting fatter not because of the amount of food they eat, but because the food they eat is too high in nutritional calories.

According to the "New Scientist" magazine, Andrew Prentice, a nutritionist from London, England, conducted an experiment in the mid-1990s. He asked two groups of volunteers to eat as much as they wanted of whatever they liked. As a result, the volunteers who ate low-calorie foods lost weight, while those who ate high-calorie foods gained an average of 65 grams of excess fat per day.

Nowadays, Prentice has found through research that fast food such as hamburgers on the market now contains 1,200 kilojoules of calories per 100 grams, while ordinary British food only has 650 calories per 100 grams. Kilojoules. Prentiss said that if a person eats an average of 200 grams of fast food (equivalent to a hamburger) per week, he can gain 8 kilograms of excess fat in a year.

Prentiss said that when people eat, they may taste the difference between low-calorie food and high-calorie food, but our bodies cannot feel this difference, and it will still feel like eating Low-calorie foods are also absorbed. While the amount of food people eat has remained the same, the amount of calories they consume has increased significantly.