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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don't have to avoid UPF. Just eat less and fill with salad/veggies until you aren't hungry. As long as you keep the calories in range you'll be mostly fine. Maybe watch the macros a bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Calories are a unit of heat, and absorbing nutrition is a biological process. Unless you're a bomb calorimeter, they have very little to do with what goes on inside you after you eat. I urge you to reconsider what food you choose to eat.

    You should absolutely desist from saying that other people should not avoid UPFs, because that is a harmful statement in the same vein as "you don't have to stop smoking."

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    You are like 25 years behind the science. There is a difference in absorption, but its negligible. Your digestion is incredibly efficient at absorbing calories. Unless you have some weird condition, you can count calories 1:1 and ignore the rounding error of absorption.

    This calorimeter talking point has been debunked for a long time now.

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