“Ultra processing really makes the calories available because you have an effect, you've pre-digested the food… you have very, very little digestion… you get far more calories out of them”

“The brain begins to lower your body's metabolism. So that for a given calorie of food, you're able to do more. Not by much, a few percent”

“Ultra-processed foods tend to be very, very high in salt, sugar, and fat because they had no flavor once you've broken everything down. And so you engineer the flavor, which means that it is hitting those rewards”

“…we also really need to restrict negative content. It's like healthy diet and junk food…if you eat healthy food one meal a day and otherwise thrice in a day you're consuming junk food, which one is more powerful?”

“Float out of the sleeping bag… get changed into your work clothes… somebody's got to get up and get the food going for breakfast… fill up the dehydrated food… put them in the food warmer”