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Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake

Kevin D. Hall, Alexis Ayuketah, R. Brychta, Hongyi Cai, Thomas M Cassimatis, Kong Y. Chen, Stephanie T. Chung, Elise Costa et al.

Cell Metabolism, 2020

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Abstract

Kevin D. Hall,* Alexis Ayuketah, Robert Brychta, Hongyi Cai, Thomas Cassimatis, Kong Y. Chen, Stephanie T. Chung, Elise Costa, Amber Courville, Valerie Darcey, Laura A. Fletcher, Ciaran G. Forde, Ahmed M. Gharib, Juen Guo, Rebecca Howard, Paule V. Joseph, Suzanne McGehee, Ronald Ouwerkerk, Klaudia Raisinger, Irene Rozga, Michael Stagliano, Mary Walter, Peter J. Walter, Shanna Yang, and Megan Zhou *Correspondence: [email protected] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.020

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