Health News The Government Wants To Understand The Health Effects Of Ultraprocessed Foods So It Paid People $5,000 To Eat Chicken Nuggets For Science

Inside the government study trying to understand the health effects of ultraprocessed foods

BETHESDA, Md. — Sam Srisatta, a 20-year-old Florida college student, spent a month living inside a government hospital here last fall, playing video games and allowing scientists to document every ... Read More

Is this the end of ultraprocessed foods?

Gavin Newsom last week signed the country’s first law to “define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods” from school lunches, said CNN. American kids get as much as two-thirds of their ... Read More

Democrats, Republicans target ultraprocessed foods with state laws

States are taking aim at chemicals and additives in foods in a bipartisan push. This is s KFF Health News story. California Republican James Gallagher, the GOP's former Assembly leader, has often ... Read More

I study the effects of ultra-processed foods... here's why I still eat 'the bad ones'

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 ... Read More

California enacts nation’s first law to define and ban ultraprocessed foods

California makes history by enacting the first law to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods in school lunches. Read More

Why Gen X women can’t stop eating ultra-processed foods

Researchers found that middle-aged adults, especially women, are far more likely to be addicted to ultra-processed foods than older generations. Marketing of diet-focused processed foods in the 1980s ... Read More

Ditching Ultraprocessed Foods Can Be Hard. Here’s Where to Start.

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 ... Read More

California Will Ban Certain Ultraprocessed Foods in Schools

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Wednesday signed into law a set of rules aimed at reducing ultraprocessed foods in schools. The legislation comes as many health experts and consumers are becoming ... Read More