Ultra-Processed Foods

Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. 

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• Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing

• Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues

• Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods

• A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing

• Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain

• Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?

• Ultra-processed foods and mortality

• Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study

• Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’

• Food addiction: a valid concept?

• The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating

• Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?

• Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts

• Sugar addiction: the state of the science

• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food

• Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries

• Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake 

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