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6 Ultra-Processed Foods Indian Households Have Started Treating as Home Cooking

Instant NoodlesMaggi's 2015 recall rattled Indian households for about six months. Then it came back, and so did the habit, except by then it had stopped being a snack. It was dinner, or a quick lunch between school and tuition, or what a working parent put together at 9 p.m.…

Times Life

Just what the doctor ordered: Brazil’s drive to ditch UPFs from hospital menus

Following the successful reduction of ultra-processed foods in schools, scientists and politicians hope to improve patient health with locally grown and freshly prepared meals

The Guardian - UK

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

The Guardian - UK

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Big Food’s Big Tobacco moment: Arianna Huffington

How the culture is changing on food and health.

Fortune

I've cut out ultra-processed food: here's what it's done for my running

With an increased awareness of what counts as ultra-processed food (UPF) and its detrimental effects, I cut it out. Now I'm enjoying a new lease of life on the trails

Advnture

Is your cocktail ultra-processed? Nutrition labels won’t tell you

Many ready-to-drink cocktails have as much sugar as Coca-Cola – but a loophole avoids the ‘ultra-processed’ tag

The Guardian - US

Support for processed food taxes grows

Participants of a survey conducted by Ipsos said the taxes would help combat the country’s obesity crisis

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The catch-22 of processed vegan food

Researchers looked at nearly a decade’s worth of data from about 118,000 adults who participated in the UK Biobank

Salon

Should ultra-processed food be taxed?

Colombia became one of the first nations in the world to tax UPFs. The US has yet to follow suit

Salon

Are ultra-processed foods all that bad?

One scientist is calling for tobacco-style warnings on such foods. But not all UPFs are inherently harmful

Salon

Scientist argues for tobacco-style warnings on ultra-processed foods

Scientist who coined the term ‘ultra-processed food’ also recommends using campaigns to raise awareness of their health risks

Evening Standard

Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term

The Guardian - UK

How Unhealthy Are Ultra-processed Foods?

Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.

International Business Times

Flamin’ hot addictions: why is America so hooked on ultra-processed foods?

Habit-forming and intrinsically nutritionally unbalanced junk foods elevate the levels of hormones responsible for hunger

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The ubiquity of dangerous ultra-processed foods

There are growing concerns over the potential harmful health effects of ultra-processed foods (UPFs).

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