Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation from Short Studies

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¹ New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, USA. Electronic address: david.ludwig@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Nørre Allé 51, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Center for Lifespan Epidemiology Research, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
⁴ New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁵ Department of Metabolism & Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.
⁶ Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, USA.
⁷ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.06.004. Epub 2019 Jun 20.

¹ New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, USA. Electronic address: david.ludwig@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Nørre Allé 51, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Center for Lifespan Epidemiology Research, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
⁴ New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁵ Department of Metabolism & Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.
⁶ Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, USA.
⁷ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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