Our food is meant to provide nutrition and energy. But increasingly, what we eat is also making us sick. For decades, people around the world have relied on ultraprocessed foods, designed to be cheap, long-lasting, and convenient. Once celebrated as a marvel of modern...

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report. UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US...

Much of the world’s population struggles to access healthy diets and millions of lives are cut short each year by diet-related chronic conditions. To reverse this trajectory, we must make food quality and nutrition central to our health strategy in order to help...

The saying “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poisonous” is correctly attributed to the Renaissance physician and alchemist Paracelsus. This idea is foundational to modern toxicology and is commonly condensed into...

Overview of the Eight Food Systems  Food System I — Hunter–Gatherer Societies (>10,000 years ago)  Human diets were shaped directly by local ecosystems through hunting, fishing, and foraging. Diverse, minimally processed, and seasonal diets supported metabolic...

The above video references 56 names of sugar. We have now identified 262 names for Added Sugar. The Added Sugar Repository (ASR) was initially developed by the Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation (EChO), in collaboration with an innovative start-up called Perfact,...