According to the most recent study, chips is as hazardous as drugs, as it can cause a feeling of addiction and doctors and experts have been advising about its destructive effects on health for a long time, although chips is the favorite snack for many people.
One third of the British and American children, eat chips every day, as said by the last research, and according to a number of calculations, one person consumes 100 bags of chips per year, but only one package of chips can have the same effect like drinking five liters of cooking oil does, notified the experts.
The author of the book “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us”, Michael Moss, clarified that the chips is “designed” to cause addiction. ”The mechanism” of the potato chips is “the taste it leaves in the mouth”, as the producers say, and can be matched up to with the sensation you get while eating some melted cheese.
In order the chips to start acting and stimulating “the center” located behind the mouth, which sends signals to the brain, a sufficient amount of fat is necessary. Brain automatically needs salty, greasy and sweet food, so the taste of potato chips makes people eat more.
Chips labeled as “premium” or various “tastes” with less fat or more natural ingredients offered at the shops are as dangerous as “regular” chips.
“Eating chips twice a month in small portions, is good”, explained Michael Moss, stressing out that eating chips during pregnancy is as dangerous as smoking.