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Ultra-processed foods linked to weight gain

Participants had to stay at the research center for 28 days

01-Aug-2019

Key points from article :

Eating ultra-processed food make people overeat and gain weight.

Include chips, cookies as well as breakfast cereal, deli meat, or canned fruit in syrup.

Decreased appetite-suppressing hormones decreased and increased hunger hormones.

This small randomized trial investigated 20 men and women over a month.

Research by National Institutes of Health, published online in Cell Metabolism.

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Cell Metabolism

Scientific Journal providing information from many different areas of metabolism

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Medical research agency that supports scientific studies

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Diet and Nutrition