Maintenance Phase
Ultra-Processed Foods
Published: 3 June 2025 at 10:00 Europe/London
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Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement.
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Links!
- Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
- Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
- Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
- A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
- Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
- Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
- Ultra-processed foods and mortality
- Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
- Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
- Food addiction: a valid concept?
- The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
- Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
- Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
- Sugar addiction: the state of the science
- The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
- Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
- Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake
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