The impact on children has been particularly alarming. >> In December, San Francisco City Attorney David Chu filed a landmark lawsuit against 10 manufacturers of ultrarocessed foods, alleging that like the tobacco companies, they knowingly engineered and marketed addictive, dangerous products while hiding the risks and causing a public health crisis. The Consumer Brands Association, one of the largest trade groups representing the food industry, declined to respond to us about the lawsuit, but in a statemen ...

They took starch, right. Those cheap, easy calories, and they converted those into a whole paniply of ingredients that it was able to reassemble. And those products are so rapidly absorbed in our system that they cause metabolic havoc.They target the brain reward circuits to keep us coming back for more. They they trigger overeating. They deprive us of any sense of fullness, >> what we all call empty calories.Those calories are not just empty. They're ending up in your liver. And that fat in your liver is g ...

RFK Jr. says, “There is no way for any American to know if a product is safe if it is ultraprocessed.” He is targeting the GRAS exemption that allows food companies to independently verify the safety of ingredients with no government oversight if they are generally recognized by experts as safe. #ultraprocessedfoods #rfkjr ...

“We’re being given food that is low in nutrition and high in calories… It’s destroying our health,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells 60 Minutes. #ultraprocessedfoods #rfkjr ...

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler says the public health crisis from ultraprocessed foods may be as large, if not larger, than tobacco. #ultraprocessedfoods #FDA ...

“Energy-dense, highly palatable, rapidly absorbable, ultraprocessed foods that have altered our metabolism and have resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history,” warns former FDA Commissioner David Kessler. #ultraprocessedfoods #health ...

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Today, an increasing number of Americans across the political spectrum, from Make America Healthy Again activists to everyday shoppers, are voicing concern about the health impact of ultrarocessed foods, those boxed and wrapped in plastic, ready to eat items lining grocery store shelves. Leading the charge are two men who disagree on pretty much everything else about public health. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr. . and Dr. . David Kesler, the former commissioner of the US Food and D ...

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