The American diet is full of ultraprocessed foods. Frozen pizza, deli meat, energy bars and energy drinks, packaged breads. These highly processed foods make up about 55% of calories Americans consume ...

Americans have been rethinking the role that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) play in their diets, especially those aiming to drop some pounds. Recent research found that overweight adults who cut out ...

What to eat. What not to eat. It's all confusing. For instance, let’s say you buy a box of crackers. As you’re enjoying them in your soup, you read the ingredient label. Turns out that what you ...

A massive brain imaging study of nearly 30,000 people has uncovered striking connections between eating ultra-processed foods ...

Ultra-processed food makes up more than half of the food eaten in the United States. While some foods are fine in moderation, eating too much can affect your health. Here’s what you need to know about ...

After decades of studies pointing to the adverse health outcomes related to ultra-processed foods ‒ often cheap and highly addictive, containing long lists of additives, artificial flavors and ...

When it comes to the dire effects of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) on health, the scientific evidence is “incontrovertible,” says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian at the Tufts Food Is Medicine Institute. He ...

A food scientist who has long vocalized the link between ultra-processed foods and chronic health conditions has revealed that he still eats them, even 'the bad ones.' Dr Kevin Hall served as a ...

Sept. 29 (UPI) --New research shows that the biggest consumers of ultra-processed foods have "significantly elevated" levels of a protein associated with systemic inflammation that can signal ...