Researchers have long known that junk food advertising can prompt children to eat more. But a new study, presented this week at the European Congress on Obesity in Málaga, Spain, goes further — ...

The world's largest medical research institute has created a score system to objectively measure ultra-processed food ...

The dietary and hygienic changes that people underwent as a result of the Black Plague could be the reason why human being are so fond of junk food 700 years later, scientists say. Those changes ...

Fellow junk food eaters can undoubtedly attest ... chemical-laden foods and the ways in which they eat those that appear in nature. "People are not experiencing this with things like beans ...

Recent research reported that people who eat 10% more UPFs than others have a 23% higher risk of head and neck cancer. A junk food diet was also linked to a 24% higher risk of cancer of the ...

A study of more than 200,000 people found those who ate the most amount of junk food were 29 percent more likely to develop the disease. It did not apply to women, perhaps because they eat more ...

and there’s some early evidence that it’s already having a positive effect on the way people eat. Some countries in the European Union use a system called Nutri-Score that grades food products ...

“We should think of the food environment in just the same way, and not go out into a ‘climate’ of junk ... with eating calorie-dense foods high in fat and sugar, the study found. People ...

March 26, 2025 – Here's something that might surprise you: People with obesity aren't driven to eat more because they find junk foods especially pleasurable. It's actually the opposite.