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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-02-27 12:00:35+00:00.
So the study asked them to consume 1500 extra calories per day? Regardless of the source, that’s a confounding variable right there. I’d like to see this done again with a steady calorie count and just a different source for those calories. Personally, if I go nuts on the junk foods for a meal I typically find myself compensating by eating less of my normal, healthier diet.
I mean, junk food diets tend to be more calorie dense
the issue is volume though. ~3500 calories of “healthy” foods will be physically harder to consume than 2000 calories of healthy foods and 1500 calories of calorically dense food.
Did people actually eat Junk food like normal diet?
Damn, I can’t even imagine that.
Americans have to go out of their way to not buy junk food since nearly everything sold in stores technically falls into that category.
The entire middle of store is just pure sugar. One aisle of juice and sports drinks, next aisle of sugar cereal and sugar bars, next aisle soda, next aisle chips and candy, next aisle literal sugar and baking goods, you get to deviate into simple carbs for two aisles after that of canned goods, pasta and international foods and then were back to the sugar in the freezer section.
If you really think about what is actual food and not some sugar snack you could fit an entire grocery store into the footprint of a GameStop sized store.
When you literally don’t have the money to buy groceries or the time to prepare food, yep. Or the education to truly understand the impacts of eating that food all the time… This is why poor people in America are overweight.
Unhealthy food isn’t healthy!? Centipedes in my what!?
