Browsing: Ultraprocessed

The recent surge in the use of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs has propelled addiction-adjacent terms such as “food noise” and “food cravings” into common vernacular. But can…

The scourge of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is global. While their consumption is particularly high in the west, forming more than half the average diet in the…

Women under 50 who have a diet high in ultra-processed foods (UPFs) stand a greater risk of having abnormal growths in their bowel that can lead…

As health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr has repeatedly blamed industrially manufactured food products for the country’s chronic illness and obesity crises, and urged Americans to…

One day recently, my son had two long, back-to-back doctor appointments, which meant he was in the car and in waiting rooms for much of the…

If you look at a package of M&Ms, one of the most popular candies in the US, you’ll see some familiar ingredients: sugar, skimmed milk powder,…

Rates of bowel and colon cancer have been increasing over the last two decades. For Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public health at the University…

Regarding Devi Sridhar’s article (Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit, 1 October), I was diagnosed…

California has long led the way on school meals. In 2022, it became the first state in the country to make school meals free for all…

People lose more weight if they cook minimally processed food from scratch than if they eat ultra-processed and ready-made foods, according to the first study to…