If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you’ve probably been told that cooking your own meals is the way to go. This has been backed up by a recent study, which found that people who ate home-cooked, ...

It turns out consumers can lose weight on a diet of ultra-processed food. That’s what the latest research into UPF suggests. In fact, whether eating a diet of UPF or minimally processed food (MPF), ...

Concerns about the health effects of ultra-processed foods are growing, as studies increasingly link them to conditions such ...

Eating in line with official dietary advice may help keep your weight in check—but how much the processing of your food matters has been less clear. Now, scientists have delivered the strongest ...

Sarah covers how industries like food and tobacco affect Americans’ bodies and minds. Her interests include ultra-processed foods; smoke-free tobacco; and wellness trends like perimenopause products ...

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed ...

Roughly 2,100 dementia-free Australian adults who ate more ultra-processed foods scored worse on tests of attention and ...

Earlier this year, President Trump formed the Make America Healthy Again Commission. The Commission included representatives from more than a dozen government agencies. The Commission was tasked with ...

Eating fewer ultra-processed foods can help you better understand what’s in your food and how it’s made. Many foods that seem healthy, like flavored yogurt and plant-based milk, are actually ...

Ultra-processed foods and research into their health effects has gained attention in recent years. Yet despite growing interest, confusion—and even controversy—remains about how these foods fit into a ...