#Ultraprocessed

How did a nice girl like me end up in New York Magazine’s MAHA issue?  I was amazed to find myself in this. MAHA is the Trump Administration’s Make America Healthy Again campaign. For the record: I’m totally for making America healthy, and especially for doing everything possible to reduce risks

Two previous short-term studies demonstrated that if you eat a diet based largely on ultra-processed foods, you are likely to consume far more calories than you would eating less processed diets–and not notice that you are overeating. The big question: why. Study #1:  Hall K, et

Charlotte Bilekoff.  Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge.  University of California Press, 2024.  267 pages. Food processing is a big issue these days (witness RFK Jr’s pledge to get ultra-processed foods out of school meals) and I was interested to see what food

Ashley N. Gearhardt, Kelly D. Brownell, Mark S. Gold, and Marc N. Potenza, editors.  Food & Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook, Second Edition.  Oxford University Press, 2024.  570 pages. This is the second edition of a book I wrote about in 2012. At the time, I said: Brownell and Gold

The current Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has produced its draft recommendations.  These, as I discuss tomorrow, are mostly banal, much the same as all guidelines since 1980. But this year there are two rather shocking exceptions, both having to do with what is not recommended. Incredible