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No, this is false. Spreading this idea is very harmful, please stop. Eating low-quality foods is bad for people's health, and makes them unhappy. When people d
by jimrandomh 10y ago
No, this is false. Spreading this idea is very harmful, please stop.
Eating low-quality foods is bad for people's health, and makes them unhappy. When people do that, they instinctively compensate for the low nutrient density in those foods by eating more, which has negative effects. But if you simply reduce quantity without replacing the junk food with healthier stuff, that isn't an improvement; that's malnutrition.
- codingdave 10y agoI hate to ask the silly question of "Did you read the article?", but it specifically said to eat more fruits and veggies, and all caloric restriction was done "with regular nutrition consultations to keep them on track". Nothing in the article recommended eating low quality foods.
- jimrandomh 10y agoYes, I did read it and saw that the part of the intervention that actually worked was changing diet content rather than quantity. But the headline is "you'd be happier if you ate less", and that is a false and pernicious statement.