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Doing This Could Help You Shed Twice as Much Weight
One Tactic Could Help You
Shed Twice as Much Weight
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Aug 9, 2025 4:20 PM CDT

One Tactic Could Help You Shed Twice as Much Weight

Study finds greater weight and fat loss when ultraprocessed foods are cut

(Newser) - Trading your protein bars for a homemade meal could help you shed twice as much weight, new research reveals, even if both diets meet modern nutrition standards. A new clinical trial published in Nature Medicine finds that people can lose twice as much weight by cutting out ultraprocessed foods—...

Ultraprocessed Foods Aren't Healthy. But We Still Eat Them

In fact, they dominate the American diet, especially for kids

(Newser) - Americans are consuming slightly fewer ultraprocessed foods than in recent years, new CDC data shows—but more than half of daily calories still come from these factory-made foods, leaving experts little cause for celebration. The latest data, pulled from 2021 to 2023, shows that ultraprocessed foods made up 53%...

Appendix Cancer Rates Climb Among Millennials and Gen X

Researchers see generational spike but causes remain largely unknown

(Newser) - Though it's still considered a medical rarity, appendix cancer is rising sharply among millennials and Gen X, according to new research—raising fresh questions about what's fueling the trend, the New York Times reports. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that rates...

Former FDA Chief Praises 'Revolutionary' GLP-1s

'These drugs offer a chance for people to improve their health even as our national body is ill'

(Newser) - "Revolutionary" anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic appear to be the right tool to deal with the addictive, highly processed foods that are ruining Americans' health, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler writes at the New York Times . He says GLP-1 drugs helped him end the "cycle of despair" of weight...

Dietitian Loads Up on Ultraprocessed Foods, Happily

Amid a deluge of scary health coverage, Jessica Wilson seeks to lower the temperature at Slate

(Newser) - If it feels like you've been hearing about ultraprocessed foods a lot lately, it's not your imagination. In fact, the "first week of the year felt very much like Ultraprocessed-Food Awareness Week," writes dietitian Jessica Wilson at Slate .
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