UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers ...

The City of San Francisco recently filed a lawsuit against the country largest manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, ...

A recent study suggests that ultra-processed foods (UPFs), due to their addictive nature and health risks, should be ...

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 ...

A new study has drawn parallels between the addictive qualities of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and tobacco products and ...

Health and Human Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. blamed the major tobacco companies for manufacturing bad, ultra-processed ...

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter ...

While taking part in a fast at the very beginning of the year, one which required me to forgo meats, processed foods and any drinks other than water (and maybe 100 percent fruit juice), I found myself ...

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such ...

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, "Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight" ...