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I'm impressed they managed to get depressed people to cut down so much on processed food, since it's so much less effort to prepare and depressed people lack energy and motivation. (I read the paper: they gave the students food hampers, but they didn't seem to give them any help with meal prep.) Presumably the participants in both groups already knew they "should" be eating more healthily but found it too much effort. I guess it's easier to try something for three weeks than to do it permanently, though.
I read another study recently linking highly processed food to obesity. It was much more controlled: they had participants on site and controlled everything they ate, rather than relying on self-report, with one group being fed processed food and the other being fed meals prepared from fresh ingredients, but making sure to match the total calorie intake and the macronutrient balance; and the unprocessed group lost weight over the few weeks of the experiment.
It seems very suggestive. I expect there's a specific class of ingredients that are being added or lost, or a specific method of processing that's to blame, and we haven't identified it yet, and have to use "processed food" as an approximation in the meantime.
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