Ultra-processed foods lead to approximately 500 more calories consumed daily and weight gain compared to minimally processed foods.

“and it really actually is kind of incredible how resilient the human body is because if you look at when the Obesity crisis started we already had Ultra processed foods available we had cakes cookies all these sorts of things but the difference was you had to go to the bakery and get it or you had there there had to be some small barrier right and then you know I think kind of the the barrier that got flipped was basically now you know in the last 30 years you can go anywhere and get access to cheap Ultra processed hyperpalatable calorically dense foods and they just don't have the same effect on satiety that normal food does where like in Kevin Hall's study at NIH where they took people from a miny processed diet and switched them to an ultr processed diet and they spontaneously increase their caloric intake by 500 calories a day like overnight”

“there is a really interesting study that was done by Kevin Hall and his research group where they compared two diets that were matched for calories energy density they were matched for macros so protein fat and carbohydrates but these diets were given to people ad libidum which means they were given to people in a metabolic Ward and the people could eat as much or as little of them as they wanted”

“the ultra processed diet group gains uh two pounds in two weeks right and the unprocessed diet group loses two pounds in two weeks they're served the same amount of food but they're ad-lib so they can eat as much as they want in the study and the diets were matched for presented calories sugar fat carbohydrates protein sodium and fiber so they were trying to make it as consistent as possible”

“over the two weeks in this study those people given Ultra processed foods consistently ate more about 500 calories a day more leading to more than two pounds of weight gain in those two weeks those who were eating the unprocessed Foods consistently ate a little bit less and that led to two pounds of weight loss in those two weeks without even trying”

“what happened was that the people who had the unprocessed food ate about 500 calories less per day and lost two pounds over two weeks the people who had the processed food ate 500 more calories per day and gained two pounds over two weeks”

“Energy intake was greater during the ultr processed diet with increased consumption of carbohydrates and fat and they ended up eating more lolic acid when you look at this and the ultra process diet had more linolic acid if you're watching on YouTube you can see these Graphics the ultr processed diet group ate consistently more calories per day and gained 2 pounds in two weeks”

“the ultra process diet group ate consistently more calories per day and gained 2 pounds in two weeks the unprocessed diet group consistently ate less calories meaning they were more full”

“the people who had the ultra processed foods just ate more because they were consistently more hungry they kept looking for more food you can see here in this basic graph that the body weight of the ultra processed group went up about one kilogram in two weeks so about two pounds and the unprocessed group just lost weight easily”

“what he finds is that when people are on the uh Ultra processed diet they end up eating about 500 more calories a day and they start to gain weight when they're on the minimally processed diet they eat less and they start to spontaneously lose weight”

“what he finds is that when people are on the uh ultrapress diet they end up eating about 500 more calories a day and they start to gain weight when they're on the minimally processed diet they eat less and they start to spontaneously lose weight”