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6 stories tagged "ultra-processed-food"
Cold Cuts and Breakfast Cereal Pulled Opposite Ways in a Giant Colon Cancer Study
In 461,682 Americans, total ultra-processed food showed no link to colorectal cancer. Inside the label, reconstituted meat products tracked with higher risk and packaged bread and cereal with lower, while a federal definition sits under White House review.
Nutrition & FoodIn a 20-Patient UCSF Pilot, Cutting Ultra-Processed Food Dropped Depression Scores About 60 Percent
Twenty adults with major depression cut their ultra-processed food by more than 85 percent, and their scores on three depression scales fell about 60 percent in four weeks. The pilot is tiny and unblinded, and the result is still hard to wave off.
InvestigationsKennedy's Ultra-Processed Food Rule Leaves Open the Loophole He Promised to Close
In February he vowed to act on the petition that demanded real safety review of food additives. In August his FDA proposed a rule that still lets companies certify their own chemicals as safe, and sell them before anyone at the agency looks.
Nutrition & FoodEven the Vitamin C Made the List: 112,000 People and Eight Everyday Preservatives Tied to High Blood Pressure
Ascorbic acid, citric acid, sodium nitrite: three of eight common food preservatives that a 112,000-person French cohort has now linked to higher blood pressure, with the researchers asking the FDA and EFSA to re-check them.
Nutrition & FoodMRI Found Fat Marbled Inside the Thigh Muscles of Heavy Ultra-Processed Eaters, and Calories Didn't Explain It
MRI scans of 615 adults found more fat marbled inside the thigh muscle the more ultra-processed food people ate, and the link held after adjustment for calorie intake, exercise, and fat intake.
Nutrition & Food8,300 Brazilian elders, one saltshaker, and the 80 percent of sodium nobody mentions
A Frontiers in Public Health survey of 8,336 Brazilians over 60 found older men reach for the saltshaker most. Buried in the same paper: the shaker only accounts for 6 to 20 percent of total sodium. The other 70-plus percent already arrived from the factory.