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Consistent evidence links ultra-processed food to over 30 damaging health outcomes - including mental ill-health and sleep problems
Date: 28/02/2024
Consistent evidence links ultra-processed food to over 30 damaging health outcomes - including mental ill-health
Could ultra-processed foods be the new 'silent' killer?
Date: 20/02/2024
"Our life expectancy is lower than other economically comparable countries. When we look at increasing rates of non-communicable diseases in less developed nations, we can see a tracking of this increase along with increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods in their diets."
Energy drinks linked to poor sleep quality and insomnia among college students
Date: 22/01/2024
Even small amounts of energy drink were associated with poorer sleep outcomes, which warrant more attention towards the consequences of consuming ED among college and university students.
Diet in childhood linked to blood vessel damage in teenage years
Date: 10/01/2024
This study highlights the importance of establishing healthy dietary habits early in life to protect against vascular damage.
Why Your Brain Hates Junk Food
Date: 02/01/2024
The health of your brain, science is making clear, has a lot to do with the health of your gut, which, of course, has much to do with what you feed it.
Fatty foods can impair the body's response to everyday stress, research suggests
Date: 05/12/2023
Consuming foods high in fat before a mentally stressful episode can reduce brain oxygenation and cause poorer vascular function in adults.
You Are When You Eat
Date: 20/11/2023
Intermittent fasting regulates biological time and improves disrupted sleep in an Alzheimer’s disease model.
Insulin resistance turns tidy brain cells into slobs — which could be a link between diet and neurodegenerative diseases
Date: 07/11/2023
These findings show how eating processed food doesn’t just affect weight gain, it affects cognitive function, and a deep functioning of your body.
Time to inform the public about the adverse effects of ultra-processed foods, researchers say
Date: 26/10/2023
The authors urge governments to take ambitious and decisive action, with immediate public health outreach to help citizens identify ultra-processed foods and limit their exposure. In the paper's final sentence, the authors state the urgency of action directly, "Everyone's health is at stake."
This Is Your Brain on Junk Food
Date: 17/10/2023
We can’t change the genes we were born with, but we can change our microbial genes. That provides a powerful lever to lift our health and our mood.
Breastfeeding is associated with lower levels of body fat at the age of nine
Date: 01/10/2023
"Infant feeding patterns, especially shorter breastfeeding duration, early soda introduction and their joint effect, may influence body fat levels later in childhood."
SAY YES to School Food For All
Date: 22/06/2023
We want to change the UK school meals’ policy. Add yourself to the map and we’ll deliver it (and every name on it) to Government later this year.
Health organisations call on retailers to commit to restrictions on multibuy promotions
Date: 22/06/2023
Leading health charities, food campaigners and medical bodies have written to the UK's major food and drink retailers urging them to implement the regulations on junk food multibuy promotions, despite a government U-turn on the policy.
Government announces further delay to introduction of junk food BOGOFs
Date: 16/06/2023
"We urge the Government to stand by the legislation and the timelines they have set out, and avoid any further harm to the nation’s health and the pressures on the NHS.”
Eating too much ultra-processed food could induce depression
Date: 17/05/2023
New research shows a link between diets high in ultra-processed foods and an increased risk of depression
Sweets change our brain: Why we can't keep our hands off chocolate
Date: 22/03/2023
Foods with a high fat and sugar content change our brain: If we regularly eat even small amounts of them, the brain learns to consume precisely these foods in the future.
Excess calories during development may alter the brain and spur adult overeating
Date: 20/03/2023
"Overnutrition during pregnancy and nursing appears to rewire the brains of developing children and, possibly, future generations."
Bad diets are not just for Christmas – they’re for life
Date: 01/01/2023
Let’s panic less about what we consume in a particular week of the year and focus more on our diets generally. We need to focus on our sugar intake across the year and the effect it has on our children’s health, wealth and happiness.
Picky eater? Research shows it could be in your DNA
Date: 09/12/2022
These findings shed a new light on our understanding of people’s food choices. If you understand why you don’t like certain foods it may help you improve the way you cook or prepare them.
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