Steven Bartlett with Dr Sarah Berry
You can eat two foods with identical nutritional labels, yet your body will absorb and store them entirely differently based on how heavily their structural matrix has been processed.
The physical structure of food dictates how your body accesses its calories, meaning intact whole foods digest slowly and excrete excess energy while pulverized equivalents trigger massive spikes in blood sugar.
Slowing your eating rate and deliberately increasing your chewing frequency allows delayed fullness hormones from the lower gut to reach your brain, naturally reducing overall caloric intake.
Consuming food after nine at night forces your body to process nutrients out of sync with cellular circadian clocks, directly increasing visceral belly fat and systemic inflammation regardless of the snack's nutritional quality.