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In early April, prominent National Institutes of Health nutrition scientist Kevin Hall took early retirement at the age of 54, citing administrative censorship as the main reason. Why? One of his ...

Ultra-processed foods line store shelves and fill daily routines, so most people treat them as ordinary parts of modern eating. Now, a new paper from researchers at Harvard, the University of Michigan ...

Many people in their 50s and 60s, especially women, are showing signs of addiction to ultra-processed foods. These are sweets, fast foods, and sugary drinks that have been around since they were kids, ...

They were the first generation of Americans to grow up with ultra-processed foods all around them – products typically loaded with extra fat, salt, sugar and flavorings. They were children and young ...

They were the first generation of Americans to grow up with ultra-processed foods all around them – products typically loaded with extra fat, salt, sugar and flavorings. They were children and young ...

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These ultra-processed foods can trigger addictive behaviors that meet the same clinical criteria used to diagnose substance-use disorders. The authors from the fields of addiction science and ...

People now in their 50s and 60s were the first generation to grow up when ultra-processed foods – often high in fats, salt and added sugar – became widely available. New research shows that this ...

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