Dr. Sarah Ballantyne
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first heard Jul 2026
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So I like to focus the conversation on
not on restriction because any food can fit into a healthy diet.
Even studies that look at ultra processed foods show there's no health harm from 20% or fewer of our daily calories coming from ultra processed foods.
So even the emptiest of calorie, what we would call the junkiest of junk food, there can be room for that in a healthy overall eating pattern and a healthy diet.
There was a study done a few years ago in kids where they gave them a bowl of red and yellow M&Ms.
And they told one group of kids, eat as many of these M&Ms as you want.
And they told the other group of kids, eat as many of these M&Ms as you want, but you're not allowed to eat the red ones.
They repeated the study in the afternoon and this time they got the same bowl of red and yellow M&Ms and both groups of kids were told, eat however many you want.
The group of kids who in the morning were not allowed to eat the red ones in the afternoon ate proportionally more red M&Ms because they had an increased desire for them.
And the kids who had food restrictions at home, who for example, weren't allowed candy at home,
They ate the most M&Ms and the most calories of all of the kids in the whole study.
It's a delightful study because all of us want to volunteer for a study where we get to eat M&Ms.
But it also is a really great illustration of just how much adopting a sort of restrictive mindset, that food is bad, I'm not allowed to have that food, how much that actually drives our behaviors around food.
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