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This scientist studies ultra-processed foods. Here’s what he eats in a day.

Former NIH researcher Kevin Hall says you can find healthy choices even among ultra-processed foods.

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Former National Institutes of Health nutrition researcher Kevin Hall speaks last year about his work. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

A decade ago, most people had never heard of ultra-processed foods.

But that changed in 2019, when Kevin Hall, then a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, published a study that shocked the nutrition world.

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