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Ultra-processed foods are built to beat your fullness

Ultra-processed foods are built to beat your fullness

Some packaged foods are engineered so you eat past full and never feel it. Burnie's text log shows the calorie cost the taste was made to hide. The deficit still decides weight, so log them, see the cost, and choose more fullness per calorie.

14 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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You can eat 1,000 calories of chips and still want more. But 1,000 calories of dal and roti feel like a lot. Why? It is not weak willpower. Some foods are built that way on purpose. This is not a general "junk food is bad" lecture. It is about the NOVA class of foods engineered to beat your fullness signal. And the Burnie answer is simple: log them, see the cost, then decide.

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