This is the sort of study that just feels like animal abuse without the justification. They pursued a study where they knew the results beforehand -- an intenti

This is the sort of study that just feels like animal abuse without the justification. They pursued a study where they knew the results beforehand -- an intentional macronutrient deficiency yields, unsurprisingly, a deficiency. And they knew it would earn press because it serves a particular worldview. One could contrive a "zero processed food" study that yielded identical results.