{
  "id": 7961519,
  "title": "Ultra-processed food may damage your muscles even without weight gain, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/ultra-processed-food-may-damage-your-muscles-even-without-weight-gain",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-17T04:42:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/ultra-processed-food-may-damage-your-muscles-even-without-weight-gain-study-finds-1.500677633"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Here's an unsettling thought: what you eat for dinner might be reshaping your thigh muscles from the inside out, and obviously, that's not good news. A new study out of UC San Francisco, published in the journal Radiology , found that people who eat more ultra-processed food tend to develop more fat inside their thigh muscles. And it's showing up in people who don't even have knee osteoarthritis…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}