It turns out consumers can lose weight on a diet of ultra-processed food. That’s what the latest research into UPF suggests. In fact, whether eating a diet of UPF or minimally processed food (MPF), ...

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you’ve probably been told that cooking your own meals is the way to go. This has been backed up by a recent study, which found that people who ate home-cooked, ...

Eating in line with official dietary advice may help keep your weight in check—but how much the processing of your food matters has been less clear. Now, scientists have delivered the strongest ...

This is a small study. They took 28 people who were randomized first to their minimally processed foods and then consumed an ultraprocessed food diet, and 27 people who did the ultraprocessed foods ...

Most people picture ultra-processed food as the obvious stuff: the fluorescent-orange cheese puffs, the drive-through burger, ...

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed ...

Ultra-processed foods and research into their health effects has gained attention in recent years. Yet despite growing interest, confusion—and even controversy—remains about how these foods fit into a ...

Despite its widespread use, "ultra-processed" food does not have a universal definition. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like to define it by April. So far, ...

Earlier this year, President Trump formed the Make America Healthy Again Commission. The Commission included representatives from more than a dozen government agencies. The Commission was tasked with ...

Eating fewer ultra-processed foods can help you better understand what’s in your food and how it’s made. Many foods that seem healthy, like flavored yogurt and plant-based milk, are actually ...

KANSAS CITY — The pending definition of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) may be one of the most consequential regulatory developments the food and beverage industry has faced since the passage of the Food ...