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Meaningless how? A lot of significant effects were found, it can't be entirely meaningless.

• nradov 1y ago
  Which statistically significant casual effects have been found?
  • benrutter 1y ago
    It's 2 days later, but the effects found in studies are: - Increased weight gain contain to the same calories in non-UPF - Consumption of UPF linked with obesity - Consumption of UPF linked with early death As always, I'm sure you could argue with experimental set up, but.those are the main claims. Source is ultra-processed people, which I mentioned earlier and someone kindly linked to.
    • nradov 1y ago
      Those are correlations found in junk observational studies, not "effects".
• tptacek 1y ago
  Correlation != causation. Your correlation can identify a hugely important effect without pinpointing its mechanism. In this case: I think it's very likely that ultraprocessing has not-very-much to do with food health, but UPF foods tend to be hyperpalatable and low-satiety, which almost certainly does. The ultraprocessing isn't what's making the foot hyperpalatable or low-satiety (the macronutrient mix and sweetening is). The previous comment was pointing out that there's an agreed-on definition of what "ultra-processing" means. There is. But there is no such agreement on mechanistic effects of ultra-processing.
  • Scarblac 1y ago
    Yes, I think much of the research is trying to find out what thr cause is, and I agree itslikely to be that hyperpalatable part.