The National Institutes of Health scientist Kevin Hall pioneered the first study to definitively prove that ultra-processed foods — like chicken tenders and prepackaged snacks — drive us to overeat ...

The American diet is killing us. On that point, public health experts largely agree. And in recent years, people who want to make Americans healthier — across the ideological spectrum — are targeting ...

People in the United Kingdom lost twice as much weight eating meals typically made at home than they did when eating store-bought ultraprocessed food considered healthy, the latest research has found.

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for ...

A new study compared the effects of eating minimally-processed foods versus ultra-processed foods. The findings offered a few surprises. A new study compared a diet of minimally processed foods with a ...

Share on Pinterest Struggling to lose weight? Discard the ultra-processed foods, a new study suggests. Image credit: kanonsky/Getty Images People whose diet contained fewer processed foods lost more ...