• thegrim33 a day 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 a day ago

      humans seem to be struggling with this still, so yes

      • boothby a day 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 a day ago

          Are you saying you saw that here in this story? If so, i missed it.

          • boothby a day 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 a day ago
        • dotcoma a day ago

          Don’t tell me: lettuce and tomatoes are better than Mars bars ?

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