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Today is #WorldConsumerRightsDay. Food brands #KraftHeinz #Mondelez #CocaCola face lawsuit for using #tobacco style tactics to hook kids on #UPF #ultraprocessed foods, causing #health issues.Eat?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer #wholefoods and #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9E1?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Global News Canada Mar 10

Ultra-processed foods may be linked to behavioural issues in kids: study
The study found that higher ultra-processed food intake at age three years was associated with adverse behavioural and emotional symptoms at age five years.
#Canada #Health #ultraprocessedfood
https://globalnews.ca/news/11722605/ultra-processed-foods-children-study/

Palm Oil Detectives Mar 2

#FMCG food brands #KraftHeinz #Mondelez 🥫 & #CocaCola 🥤 face lawsuit for using #tobacco 🚬🚭 style tactics to hook kids on #UPF #ultraprocessed foods, causing chronic #health issues 🤮🌎 Resist when you eat #wholefoods and #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9E1?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Dining and Cooking Feb 14

Why ultra-processed food might not be as bad as we’re told – The Little Things

“Processing does have a really important purpose and it does enable us to also consume food that is more affordabl…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #according #aş #bad #BE #expert #fear #Foods #growing #little #might #not #nutrition #scaremongering #the #Things #told #Ultraprocessed #were #why
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2512855/why-ultra-processed-food-might-not-be-as-bad-as-were-told-the-little-things/

Alexander J. Stein Feb 7

A main methodological weakness of the #NOVA classification of #ultraprocessed food is heterogeneity within the #UPF category, which puts together products with very different #nutrition profiles & potential #health impacts, whether some of them may be beneficial for… (1/x) doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Are all ultra-processed foods ...

Are all ultra-processed foods bad? A criticism of the food processing classification systems | Public Health Nutrition | Cambridge Core

Are all ultra-processed foods bad? A criticism of the food processing classification systems

Cambridge Core

Distante Feb 5

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food according to a recent study

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/public-health-ultra-processed-foods-regulation-cigarettes-addiction-nutrition

#ultraprocessed #foods #UPF #Tobacco #food #Health

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers

The Guardian

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Just Jim Jan 31

@infobeautiful #Ultraprocessed #food should have a warning label

Joe Public Jan 30

US-owned Coca-Cola announces it is discontinuing Minute Maid, Fruitopia, and FiveAlive products in Canada, as Canadians take better care of their health #sugar #ultraprocessed #health #Canada youtu.be/niIilevblQg

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Say goodbye to frozen juice concentrate in Canada

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Joseph Lim

Jan 27

More #young adults, teens in #Singapore being diagnosed with #cancer
“Researchers hv identified a ‘birth cohort effect’ ..” Dr Poon said.. someone born in 1990 is 4 times more likely to develop colorectal cancer cf w someone born in 1950, she noted.. emerging evidence points to changes in the #earlylife #exposome as likely contributing #factors. These incl te rise in #ultraprocessed #foods, #obesity, sedentary lifestyles & alterations to the gut #microbiome" #health 🧐⚕️
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/more-young-adults-teens-in-singapore-being-diagnosed-with-cancer

More young adults, teens in Singapore being diagnosed with cancer

Discover why more young adults and teens are being diagnosed with cancer, explore common types, and learn about risk factors and prevention. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times

Paul Houle Jan 22

🪅 Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to digest starches in ultra-processed foods, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-gut-bacteria-rapidly-digest-starches.html

#bacteria #food #microbiome #digestion #omics #microbes #diet #ultraprocessed

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to digest starches in ultra-processed foods, study finds

Gut bacteria evolve rapidly in response to different diets, UCLA evolutionary biologists report in a new study. The researchers found that gene variants that help microbes digest starches found in ultra-processed foods have "swept" the genomes of some species of gut bacteria in industrialized parts of the world.