I recently provided a column on the alarming health status of adolescents in the U.S. There is a close association between many of the negative health outcomes associated with the increasing ...

Ultra-processed foods may be doing far more damage than many people realize. A major new European cardiology report warns that people who eat the most ultra-processed foods face significantly higher ...

In the latest episode of our healthy living podcast, our public health nutritionist Shefalee Loth and the founder of ...

The marketers of ultra-processed foods have taken a leaf out of the tobacco industry's playbook to make their foods more addictive.

This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil. Pippa And I'm Pippa. Phil If you've eaten anything today, then it's likely that some of your food was ultra-processed – food containing ...

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Ultra-processed foods tend to get a bad rap, as they have been linked to an increased risk of obesity, heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes. A recent study even suggested that UPFs have a ...

Researchers have known for years that eating a lot of ultra-processed food is associated with higher rates of depression and ...

Children who get more than 30% of their daily energy from ultra-processed foods (UPFs), such as soda drinks, packaged snacks, ...

Despite its widespread use, "ultra-processed" food does not have a universal definition. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like to define it by April. So far, ...