A new lawsuit likens food companies to the tobacco industry. But it’s much harder to do something about junk food than ...

Ultraprocessed” has become a bad word in our food supply, but regulators are struggling with how to define the term to help consumers. Here’s why that’s so hard to do.

Pizza, fried chicken and ice cream sound soooo good on a bad day, but several studies have shown that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) like donuts do not help your health or well-being and actually harm ...

We’ve all heard it: Eat clean. Shop smart. Avoid ultra-processed foods. “There’s that famous potato chip commercial: ‘You can't eat just one.’ That's the whole point. The purpose of food companies is ...

Half of the cheap-and-tasty paradigm that makes junk food so appealing is collapsing: Many of those guilty-pleasure treats aren’t so cheap anymore. More than any impact weight-loss drugs like Ozempic ...

Alice Callahan, a reporter for the Well desk, explored the history of ultraprocessed foods and how they became a major threat to our health. By Sarah Bahr Frozen meals were a staple of Sarah Bahr’s ...

One recurring (and vexing) problem with nutrition research is how inaccurately many studies are communicated. This is most likely to happen on social media and dubious online “media outlets,” but it ...

Scientists discovered that high-fat junk food disrupts memory circuits in the brain almost immediately. Within just four days, neurons in the hippocampus became overactive, impairing memory. Restoring ...

Making Gains: “Legendary became a laboratory to see if I could do this again, and do it more cleanly and leanly,” says founder Ron Penna. “My goal was to build two unicorn companies back-to-back.” ...

“If I bought the sugary cereal, they would eat that; they would never choose any of the [healthy] options over that,” the mom said Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism ...

(CNN) - Six more states were granted waivers from the Department of Agriculture to prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits, or SNAP, from being used on certain processed food and ...