Kennedy told us he will use gold standard science to review grass ingredients, but his credibility on that score has been widely called into question because of his history of vaccine skepticism and his agency's revision of the childhood vaccine schedule. Are you concerned at all that your stance on vaccines might make people reluctant to support you on ultrarocessed foods. My stance on vaccines is the same.People should have good science and they should have choice. >> Some doctors worry that the new immun ...

We change how this country views tobacco. We need to change how this country views these ultrarocessed foods. >> Would you like to see the CEOs of big food companies come before Congress and raise their hand and be questioned like the tobacco industry was.I'd like them to understand the consequences of what they are doing and to do something about it. ...

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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