A new study suggests that cutting out a single category of foods could nearly double people’s weight-loss results.
The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine on Aug. 4, found that overweight adults who ditched ultra-processed foods (UPFs) lost nearly twice as much weight over a two-month span as those who did not.
UPFs include microwave meals, sodas, potato chips and packaged cookies, among others.
But they can also include items marketed as “health foods,” some medical professionals say.
UPFs go through multiple processes to be “stabilized for consumption,” Dr. Jeffrey Kraft, a bariatric surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center in New Jersey, told Fox News Digital.