The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you said, "David, I just want something I can tell people so that when I tell them this, it has a beneficial effect." Does telling them not to eat ultrarocessed foods or to eat as few of them as possible? Defining ultrarocessed in this way help. The answer is might help a lot. Depends on how you, you know, might might vary a little bit depending on how you said it. We need more studies. We need to figure out. My guess is as with everything else, it won't last long, right?
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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If you said, "David, I just want something I can tell people so that when I tell them this, it has a beneficial effect." Does telling them not to eat ultrarocessed foods or to eat as few of them as possible? Defining ultrarocessed in this way help. The answer is might help a lot.