{"id":62964,"date":"2025-12-31T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62964"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:22:53","slug":"ultra-processed-is-fromulated-to-be-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62964","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed Is Fromulated To Be Addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received this in a newsletter from Nathan Crane:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s something wild:<\/p>\n<p>People ate over 500 extra calories a day on an ultra-processed diet. (Hall et al., 2019 &#8211; PubMed)<\/p>\n<p>When food is designed to be extra tempting, your body can end up eating a lot more without you deciding to.<\/p>\n<p>Not because you\u2019re lazy.<br \/>\nNot because you lack willpower.<\/p>\n<p>But the food was designed to override your body\u2019s natural signals.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019ve ever felt like your cravings are out of control, it\u2019s not always a character flaw.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sometimes chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this in a newsletter from Nathan Crane: Here\u2019s something wild: People ate over 500 extra calories a day on an ultra-processed diet. (Hall et al., 2019 &#8211; PubMed) When food is designed to be extra tempting, your body can end up eating a lot more without you deciding to. Not because you\u2019re lazy. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ultra-processed Is Fromulated To Be Addictive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62965,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62964\/revisions\/62965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}