Scientist shares food to avoid that may make you eat extra '500 calories a day'
dailyrecord.co.ukCalorie counting can be a nightmare if you're trying to lose weight, so the ability to simply avoid an extra 500 calories daily would come as a relief to many slimmers.Professor Tim Spector shared the handy way to dodge hundreds of calories on a recent episode of Michael Mosley's Just One Thing podcast.
Introduced as a "leading expert" on nutrition by the diet guru, Professor Spector went on to explain how one type of food can increase your appetite, leading people to hoover up an extra 500 calories a day.The Kings College epidemiologist says his top food tip is to reduce or avoid ultra-processed food.
According to Prof Spector, the fat, sugar and salt content of food isn't the only important thing in our diet - it's how food is processed.What are ultra-processed foods?
While there isn't a universal definition, he says 95 percent of these foods are "dead easy" to spot. Dubbed "fake foods" by the scientist, he says the easiest thing to do is to look at food labels and recognise what's not in your kitchen.
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