Kevin Hall made a career out of figuring out what’s wrong with the way we eat. So, you may be surprised to discover that he isn’t one of those “clean” eating types who shun all packaged foods. In fact, Hall feeds his kids some ultra-processed lunch foods every day. And he doesn’t think there’s anything…
It’s a little after 9:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, and hair-netted workers at the Alhambra Unified School District’s central production kitchen are boxing up the last of 350 handmade sushi rolls for the city’s three high schools. The spicy tuna rolls, redolent of cooked fish blended with sriracha and mayonnaise, are a popular lunch…
Given the increasing relevance of sustainable nutrition in protecting both individual health and environmental integrity, this study provides meaningful insights into the interrelationship between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption, carbon footprint awareness, and sustainable and healthy eating behaviors. In recent years, sustainable nutrition has emerged as a central concept, aiming to safeguard both human health and…
When given nutritionally matched diets, participants lost twice as much weight eating minimally processed foods compared to ultra-processed foods, suggesting that cutting down on processing could help to sustain a healthy weight long term, finds a new clinical trial led by researchers at UCL and UCLH. The study, published in Nature Medicine, is the first…
Colon cancer is rising in people under 50. James Kinross, a gastrointestinal surgeon who researches how the gut microbiome affects our risk of the disease, told Business Insider that poor gut health could be partly to blame. Research suggests the gut microbiome, the trillions of microbes that live in the digestive tract, has a wide-ranging…