People who get the most of their calories from ultra-processed foods have a significantly higher risk of heart attack and ...

Eating more ultra-processed foods — like sodas, packaged snacks, and processed meats — was linked to a 47% higher risk of ...

For decades, public health officials treated cigarettes as a dangerous consumer product. We taxed them, reduced or banned ...

Cancer survivors with diets high in ultra-processed foods have a 59% higher rate of death from cancer, researchers reported ...

Shoppers can look for clues on food labels to identify ultra-processed items.

New dietary guidelines released by the Trump administration tell Americans to avoid ultra-processed foods but don't have an ...

In November 2025, a group of the world’s leading experts on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) came together to review the latest evidence for the overall impact of these foods on our health for leading ...

In December, researchers from France published their findings in the medical journal The Lancet Regional Health after ...

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially modified products loaded with added fats, sugars, starches, salts and chemical additives like emulsifiers. From sodas to snacks and processed meats, these ...

The study mentions that the food industry uses specific combinations of fat, sugar, salt, and flavour additives that create a ...

Researchers are calling for more comprehensive policies to reduce the currently-high rate that Canadians consume ...

When people ate a highly processed diet for two weeks, they consumed far more calories and gained more weight and body fat than they did when they ate a less processed diet—even though both diets had ...