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2 stories tagged "ultraprocessed-food"

Metabolic & Weight

Your Kidneys Are Quietly Failing. The WHO's Plan Skips What's Actually Killing Them.

The Lancet is pushing fast implementation of the first WHO kidney resolution, which expands screening and treatment access while leaving the ultraprocessed food and sugar driving the global CKD doubling untouched.

Nutrition & Food

Vitamin C just landed on an 8-preservative hypertension list. It was the only one also tied to heart disease.

A French cohort of 112,395 adults, followed eight years, flagged eight common preservatives for hypertension. Ascorbic acid was the only one that also independently associated with cardiovascular disease, and the lead author is calling on EFSA and FDA to reopen the file.