Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation from Short Studies

In the short term, eating behavior and body weight may be influenced by many behavioral, psychological, and environmental factors, such as room temperature, social interactions, food appearance, portion size, and more. However, research demonstrates that biology exerts dominant control over body weight, analogous to breathing and fluid balance (albeit over a longer time frame). Whereas many people can lose weight with a low-calorie diet for a...