What I talk about when I talk about the dangers of formaldehyde, a new study on UPF diets, cultured foie gras regulatory applications and soil using biochar.
Hi Larissa—love your coverage of the UPF topic! As someone also super interested in that space, I wanted to offer more context to the conclusion you presented here for the reader. There are 4 groups in the 'new' Hall study, 3 UPF groups varying in food that is either hyper-palatable or energy-dense, or neither. They are trying to tease out the specific contribution of these properties to caloric overconsumption.
The pre-read of the study showed no significant difference in calories consumed on the unprocessed diet vs. the ultra-processed diet which was salso not hyper-palatable and not energy-dense. This suggests that overconsumption isn't due to ultra-processing per se', but energy density and hyper palatability.
Jason, great comment and thank you for pointing out that the study goes deeper than I conveyed. You're correct that Hall et al were looking into four different diets ranging in energy density and hyper palatability ranges. I've made a small update to the post to make sure folks don't miss it. (I often worry about giving too much information...maybe I shouldn't?)
Hi Larissa—love your coverage of the UPF topic! As someone also super interested in that space, I wanted to offer more context to the conclusion you presented here for the reader. There are 4 groups in the 'new' Hall study, 3 UPF groups varying in food that is either hyper-palatable or energy-dense, or neither. They are trying to tease out the specific contribution of these properties to caloric overconsumption.
The pre-read of the study showed no significant difference in calories consumed on the unprocessed diet vs. the ultra-processed diet which was salso not hyper-palatable and not energy-dense. This suggests that overconsumption isn't due to ultra-processing per se', but energy density and hyper palatability.
Jason, great comment and thank you for pointing out that the study goes deeper than I conveyed. You're correct that Hall et al were looking into four different diets ranging in energy density and hyper palatability ranges. I've made a small update to the post to make sure folks don't miss it. (I often worry about giving too much information...maybe I shouldn't?)
I suspect that folks are here because they love the weeds you dive into (that's why I'm here!), so probably more is good!
Noted!!