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Control: 1000mg calcium/100g Intervention: 62mg calcium/100g

OMG PROCESSED FOOD CAUSES BONE PROBLEMS </s>

They even avoided including cheese, to increase the size of the calcium deficiency.

This is the sort of study that just feels like animal abuse without the justification. They pursued a study where they knew the results beforehand -- an intentional macronutrient deficiency yields, unsurprisingly, a deficiency. And they knew it would earn press because it serves a particular worldview.

One could contrive a "zero processed food" study that yielded identical results.

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