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Do you know of any research showing that ultra-processed food in general is bad?

The only thing I found was comparing ultra-processed food with other food with the same nutritional value that concluded that people get fatter on UPF because they eat more of it.

The only conclusion I could draw from it is that UPF is just tastier. (or hyper palatable if you want to make it sound more sinister)



Not to be glib, but the answer to your question is as simple as

https://www.google.com/search?q=research+showing+that+ultra-...

Spoiler: it increases your chance of cancer and other mortality issues. And makes you fat.


Being fat is a known cancer risk and risk for other issues. Does UPF add anything to that?

Or is the only charge against it that it's easy to eat more of it?

If so basically if you can keep your weight in check you can eat any amount of UPF without any adverse effects, right?




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