Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

 (news.vt.edu)

8 points | by gmays 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • esperent 25 minutes ago
    From the actual study:

    > The non-UPF and UPF test meals were closely matched on meal weight, energy, energy density, macronutrients, available carbohydrate, glycaemic index and load, total dietary fibre, sodium and water (all ≤1.6% deviation between meals; Fig. 1b).

    So they did match glycemic index, which the article omits.

  • TheChaplain 19 minutes ago
    I believe they are on to something, but wouldn't it be much better if the sample size was larger than just 57 people?
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    • esperent 10 minutes ago
      Of course but I'm sure they made the sample size as large as their funding permitted and it's better than nothing.
  • niek_pas 23 minutes ago
    Would love to read the original research paper if anyone has access to it. My university unfortunately doesn’t.
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