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The World Health Organization is developing global guidelines on ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption, potentially ...

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The cookies, chips, and frozen dinners filling grocery store aisles could actually be changing your brain to make you crave ...

Charlotte Biltekoff explores the public's mistrust of processed foods and the food industry's misunderstanding of these ...

A new wave of lawsuits targets big food as health crisis mounts A legal reckoning may be coming for the food industry. In a ...

If it feels like your child’s diet consists entirely of breakfast cereal, chicken nuggets and snacks that’d outlast the apocalypse, you’re not alone.     Processed foods are the go-to for many kids, ...

Here’s what to know about what gut health is, what symptoms of an unhealthy gut you can look out for and how to begin ...

Rising grocery prices are forcing most Americans to shift toward ultraprocessed foods, leading to increased health risks and exacerbating existing disparities, particularly among underserved ...

The texture of many packaged foods plays a big role in driving people to eat more of them, new research shows ...