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Ultra-processed foods
Eating processed foods can increase your risk of early death from heart disease by 58%, study finds (Insider, January 4, 2021)
(Journal) Ultra-processed food consumption is associated with increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the Moli-sani Study (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, December 18, 2020)
(Journal) Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition—an essay by Gyorgy Scrinis (British Medical Journal, December 7, 2020)
Why The Food Industry Is A Sitting Duck For Massive Regulation (Forbes, November 30, 2020)
Teens' ultra-processed diet puts their hearts at risk (American Heart Association News, November 24, 2020)
UK to ban all online junk food advertising to tackle obesity (The Guardian, November 10, 2020)
The consumption of processed sugar‐ and starch‐containing foods, and dental caries: a systematic review (European Journal of Oral Sciences, November 6, 2020)
Ultraprocessed Food: Addictive, Toxic, and Ready for Regulation (Nutrients, November 5, 2020)
Is Subway’s bread actually bread? The dispute is a reminder of how much sugar lurks in our food (Washington Post, October 8, 2020)
By banishing cartoons and adding warnings, Mexico takes on obesity (AlterNet, October 5, 2020)
Subway bread is not bread, Irish court rules (Guardian, October 1, 2020)
'We Had To Take Action': States In Mexico Move To Ban Junk Food Sales To Minors (NPR, September 14, 2020)
MEXICO MOVES TO BAN JUNK FOOD SALES TO CHILDREN, CITING OBESITY AS CORONAVIRUS RISK FACTOR (Washington Post, August 19, 2020)
CDC: Children and teens are eating more fast food (The Hill, August 14, 2020)
Fast food makes an unhealthy comeback among kids (HealthDay, August 14, 2020)
Fast Food Intake Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 2015–2018 (National Center for Health Statistics, August 2020)
How A Libertarian Is Tackling Obesity And Why Big Food Should Worry (Forbes, August 13, 2020)
Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children (BBC News, August 6, 2020)
Public health, nutrition experts call on companies to stop misleading labeling of 'toddler milks' (University of Connecticut, July 28, 2020)
Junk food marketers found targeting children on social media without repercussions (The Conversation, June 17, 2020)
Has Pandemic Snacking Lured Us Back to Big Food and Bad Habits? (New York Times, June 16, 2020)
The Advertising Policies of Major Social Media Platforms Overlook the Imperative to Restrict the Exposure of Children and Adolescents to the Promotion of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages (Environmental Research and Public Health, June 11, 2020)
OBESITY AND COVID-19: THE ROLE OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY (British Medical Journal, June 10, 2020)
Big food brands, some out-of-favor for years, see sales and stock prices jump on stay-at-home grazing (Washington Post, May 11, 2020)
Is It Time To Quarantine Junk Food? (Nutrition Coalition, May 4, 2020)
(Journal) Ultra-processed food consumption and indicators of obesity in the United Kingdom population (2008-2016) (PLoS One, May, 2020)
CORONAVIRUS AND OBESITY: DOCTORS TAKE AIM AT FOOD INDUSTRY OVER POOR DIETS (Food Navigator, April 22, 2020)
The pandemic is forcing food to come to our emotional rescue (University of Western Ontario, April 15, 2020)
The psychology of comfort food: Why we look to carbs for solace (The Conversation, April 15, 2020)
‘We can’t make enough mac and cheese’: Processed food is undergoing a renaissance as people settle in for a long stretch of cooking at home (Chicago Tribune, April 10, 2020)
Avoiding processed food won't protect you from the coronavirus, but sleep, exercise, and reducing stress will help (Business Insider, March 10, 2020)
A common artificial sweetener might be making you fatter and sicker, a new study says (Washington Post, March 10, 2020)
Combining carbs and sweeteners could affect insulin sensitivity (Medical News Today, March 7, 2020)
Disrupted When Low-Cal Sweetener Consumed with Added Carbs (Genetic Engineering & Biotech News, March 4, 2020)
Artificial sweeteners combined with carbs may be more harmful than those sweeteners alone (Cell Press, March 3, 2020)
Short-Term Consumption of Sucralose with, but Not without, Carbohydrate Impairs Neural and Metabolic Sensitivity to Sugar in Humans (Cell Metabolism, March 3, 2020)
Eating junk food found to impair the role of the hippocampus in regulating gorging (Medical Xpress, February 19, 2020)
Hippocampal-dependent appetitive control is impaired by experimental exposure to a Western-style diet (Royal Socitey Open Science, February 19, 2020)
How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket (February 13, 2020)
Less advertising for high-calorie snacks on children's TV (University of Bonn, February 5, 2020)
Ad spending on toddler milks increased four-fold from 2006 to 2015 (UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, February 4, 2020)
The Ominous Rise of Toddler Milk (The Atlantic, February 4, 2020)
US toddler milk sales and associations with marketing practices (Public Health Nutrition, February 4, 2020)
Pasta Is Now A Vegetable? USDA’s School Lunch Guidelines Threaten The Health Of Our Nation’s Children (Forbes, January 30, 2020)
Snoop Dogg made a sandwich for Dunkin'. It comes with a donut bun (CNN, January 13, 2020)
General Mills Makes It Official: Sugar and Cereal Are Back Together (Adweek, January 10, 2020)
Processed foods highly correlated with obesity epidemic in the US (Medical Xpress, January 6, 2020)
Is this the secret to getting teens to reject junk food? (Washington Post, January 1, 2020)
How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket (Guardian, February 13, 2020)
Sugar and white bread tied to older women's insomnia (Reuters, December 19, 2019)
Ultra-processed foods may raise the risk of type 2 diabetes (Medical News Today, December 19, 2019)
The More Processed Foods You Eat, the Higher Your Diabetes Risk (New York Times, December 18, 2019)
Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (JAMA, December 16, 2019)
WHO hits out at junk food cos as nutrition crisis hits global growth and development goals (Telegraph, December 15, 2019)
Double burden of malnutrition (World Health Organization)
The Double Burden of Malnutrition (The Lancet, December 16, 2019)
How junk food shapes the developing teenage brain (Medical Xpress, December 12, 2019)
After calorie counts go on fast-food menus, orders dip a bit (Associated Press, November 6, 2019)
Estimating the effect of calorie menu labeling on calories purchased in a large restaurant franchise in the southern United States: quasi-experimental study (BMJ, October 30, 2019)
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World (New York Times, September 16, 2019)
‘Ultra-processed’ products now half of all UK family food purchases (The Guardian, February 2, 2018)
Is it really possible that plant-based foods such as the Impossible Whopper are healthful? (Washington Post, September 9, 2019)
More troubling signs that ultra-processed foods can hurt your health (Washington Post, August 19, 2019)
Babies in Nepal get quarter of calories from junk food, study finds (The Guardian, July 17, 2019)
It’s trendy to scorn processed food. Now there’s research to back up that attitude (Washington Post, June 24, 2019)
Red and processed meat can shorten life, says scientists (The Guardian, June 12, 2019)
Association of changes in red meat consumption with total and cause specific mortality among US women and men: two prospective cohort studies (The British Medical Journal, June 12, 2019)
Junk food may be fuelling rise in food allergies, say experts (The Guardian, June 8, 2019)
How to identify 'ultra-processed' foods – the grub that's linked to death (The Telegraph, May 30, 2019)
Heavily processed food like ready meals and ice-cream linked to early death (The Guardian, May 29, 2019)
Association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and all cause mortality (British Medical Journal, May 29, 2019)
Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: prospective cohort study (British Medical Journal, May 29, 2019)
Why Eating Processed Foods Might Make You Fat (New York Times, May 16, 2019)
Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain (Cell Metabolism, May 16, 2019)
The short-chain fatty acid propionate (a commonly used food additive found in processed food) increases glucagon and FABP4 production, impairing insulin action in mice and humans (Science Translational Medicine, April 24, 2019)
Three-quarters of food bought in UK hospitals is unhealthy, audit shows (The Guardian, May 22, 2019)
Study links heavily processed foods to risk of earlier death (The Guardian, February 11, 2019)
What is Britain eating? The ultra-processed truth out 10 of our bestselling foods (The Guardian, April 12, 2018)
Weight loss linked to healthy eating not genetics, study says (The Guardian/Australian Associated Press, February 21, 2018)
Processed diets could be “increasing burden of cancer” for decades to come (Reuters, February 15, 2019)
Ultra-processed foods may be linked to cancer, says study (The Guardian, February 14, 2018)
Cancer warning over processed foods that make up half of UK diet (The Telegraph, February 14, 2018)