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Earlier this week, Christina Jewett and Julie Creswell at the New York Timesbroke the story of how corporate stall tactics contributed to the summer’s Cyclospora epidemic of historic proportions. The news came on the heels of an announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that its long touted proposal to define ultra-processed foods…

The challenge of knowing which foods to choose for good health, given constraints such as availability, taste and budget, is real. While blanket categories have sought to simplify decisions for consumers, new evidence points to a need for nuanced interpretation in order to improve the quality of global food environments

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There is a reason you feel done after a big whole food meal but keep reaching into a bag of chips long past hunger. It is not weak discipline. Ultra-processed foods are built, deliberately and expensively, to change how your brain responds to eating, and research is mapping how. Seeing that will not make the…

Four out of five foods sold for toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, according to research that analyzed more than 2,700 products on grocery store shelves

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For years, the phrase “ultra-processed” has functioned as a one-word verdict on a bowl of cereal, a can of beans, or a glass of plant-based milk — a shorthand for dietary danger that lumped them alongside potato chips and soda. A sweeping Harvard analysis presented yesterday at the largest annual nutrition science conference in the…

Four out of five foods sold for toddlers in the U.S. are ultra-processed, according to new research

JAKARTA – Not all ultra-processed foods are automatically bad for health. Recent research shows that the quality of nutrition and overall dietary patterns also need to be taken into account

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – A new study found that four out of five foods sold for and marketed toward toddlers were ultraprocessed, and more than half failed one or more nutrition tests from the World Health Organization