ArticleNutrients2020
Ultraprocessed Food: Addictive, Toxic, and Ready for Regulation.
Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Purpose of Food Processing and Ultra-Processed Food: the Potential, Pitfalls and Path Forward for Public Health.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- Dietary Behaviors and Mental Health Disorders Among Private University Students in Dhaka North City Corporation, Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.Public health challenges · 2026Article
- Ultra processed foods and their inputs increasingly dominate New Zealand's food and beverage imports: a retrospective analysis.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- FADIS: Fast-food attributed diabetes index study: An ecological State-level exploration of nutritional transitions and diabetes burden in India.The Indian journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Associations between food insecurity and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation with ultra-processed food acquisitions for home consumption in US households.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- From Supermarkets to Farms: Food Policy and the Obesity Epidemic.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Review
- Socio-demographic, dietary, exercise, and mental health factors associated with food addiction symptoms in university students.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025Article
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- Odor of Fatty Acids: Differences in Threshold and Perception Intensity Between Sexes.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pathophysiology of Prediabetes Hyperinsulinemia and Insulin Resistance in the Cardiovascular System.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Ultra-Processed Diets and Endocrine Disruption, Explanation of Missing Link in Rising Cancer Incidence Among Young Adults.Cancers · 2025Review
- Factors Affecting Ultra-Processed Food Consumption: Hedonic Hunger, Food Addiction, and Mood.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Regulatory responses to ultra-processed foods are skewed towards behaviour change and not food system transformation.Nature food · 2025Article
- Salty Biscuits Enriched with Fresh and Dried Bee Pollen: Chemical, Technological, and Sensory Characterization.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigating the Relationship Between Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Academic Performance in the Adolescent Population: The EHDLA Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
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Abstract
Past public health crises (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, opioids, cholera, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), lead, pollution, venereal disease, even coronavirus (COVID-19) have been met with interventions targeted both at the individual and all of society. While the healthcare community is very aware that the global pandemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has its origins in our Western ultraprocessed food diet, society has been slow to initiate any interventions other than public education, which has been ineffective, in part due to food industry interference. This article provides the rationale for such public health interventions, by compiling the evidence that added sugar, and by proxy the ultraprocessed food category, meets the four criteria set by the public health community as necessary and sufficient for regulation-abuse, toxicity, ubiquity, and externalities (How does your consumption affect me?). To their credit, some countries have recently heeded this science and have instituted sugar taxation policies to help ameliorate NCDs within their borders. This article also supplies scientific counters to food industry talking points, and sample intervention strategies, in order to guide both scientists and policy makers in instituting further appropriate public health measures to quell this pandemic.
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