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Deny, Denounce, Delay
‘Deny, denounce, delay’: the battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods Despite a growing body of evidence, Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the health effects of industrially formulated substances Read the full article in the...
Dr. Robert H. Lustig on Sugar
Can Processed Food Be Transformed? Inside the Global Reckoning Over What We Eat
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 should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
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...
Catalysing Cross Sector Leadership for Metabolic Health
How to unlock the future of nutrition through the power of food
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...
GLB vs GLP-1
GLB vs. GLP-1: Fixing the System or Hacking the Symptom? We are living in an age of metabolic confusion. Rates of obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, depression, and inflammatory illness are climbing together, like a badly synchronized choir. In response, science...
“Real Food” from a Metabolic Perspective
What Is Real Food? (A Metabolic Matrix Definition) The phrase “real food” is everywhere. It appears on packaging, in social media, in policy discussions, and in wellness marketing. Yet despite its popularity, the term has no consistent scientific meaning. Too often,...
Breaking Bad: When Food Targets Health
Breaking Bad: When Food Targets Health, Making the case for a Metabolic Revolution, promises to be one of the most exciting and informative events at the World Economic Forum 2026 meeting in Davos, Switzerland this year. The invitation-only Accredited Programme event...
The Dose Makes the Poison
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...
