Yeah, pretty much my thoughts too. There needs to be some good (not 20 people for 2 weeks) studies which compare the effects of "ultraprocessed food" vs "reall

Yeah, pretty much my thoughts too. There needs to be some good (not 20 people for 2 weeks) studies which compare the effects of "ultraprocessed food" vs "really tasty food", keeping total kcals constantly high. My guess is that a high proportion of the negative effects come from an excess of salt, sugar and fat (and too many calories in general) - which is precisely how they get the food tasting so nice in fancy restaurants. I'm also sure there definitely are chemicals we're consuming in UPFs which are bad for us, but a lot of them are probably fine. Lumping everything together so it's possible for people to get the idea that an organic yogurt is somehow just as bad as a tube of Pringles seems counterproductive.