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hese manufacturers went from selling 60.4 trillion calories a year to 54 trillion. But does lowering calories really reduce weight gain? Perhaps not.
This is the key message: Cutting calories in processed foods might not solve the problem.
In fact evidence is now emerging that the relationship between processed food and weight gain is extremely complex. In 2019 a study published in the Journal of Cell Metabolism suggested that it's not just the high calorie count in processed foods that causes us to gain weight but something else too. The study’s researchers discovered this by giving 20 participants a highly-processed diet for 14 days and then swapping them over to an unprocessed diet for the same amount of time. Importantly the two diets contained the same amount of fat sugar salt and calories. But even so the participants still gained weight on the highly-processed diet.
The researchers couldn’t say why the processed food diet had caused weight gain but some scientists think they'