Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight

17 rntn 7 8/4/2025, 4:21:06 PM nature.com ↗

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thegrim33 · 9d ago
Scanning through the data,

The ultra-processed foods group had mean caloric intakes at baseline (2009kcal), 4 weeks (1763kcal), and 8 weeks (1769kcal).

Compared to the minimally-processed food group's intake amounts of baseline (1938kcal), 4 weeks (1334kcal), 8 weeks (1463kcal).

Ok? So the finding is that the fewer calories you take in, the more weight you lose. Do we really need yet another study about this?

ahmeneeroe-v2 · 9d ago
humans seem to be struggling with this still, so yes
boothby · 9d ago
I've seen a few studies on calorie-free sweeteners inducing consumption thereby increasing calorie intake. If the story here is that eating ultraprocessed foods reduces willpower, do you maintain your dismissive stance?
jjtheblunt · 9d ago
Are you saying you saw that here in this story? If so, i missed it.
boothby · 9d ago
If that wasn't the correlation they set out to measure, they'd be accused of p-hacking. Studies like this are useful for meta-analysis.
gabrielsroka · 9d ago
dotcoma · 9d ago
Don’t tell me: lettuce and tomatoes are better than Mars bars ?

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