In research tracking adults ages 40 to 70, even modest increases in intake were linked to lower performance on attention ...

A new study has found that higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods is associated with lower attention and increased ...

A massive brain imaging study of nearly 30,000 people has uncovered striking connections between eating ultra-processed foods and measurable changes in brain structure. These changes may be tied to ...

Ultra-processed foods may be doing more harm than we know. A new study has linked ultra-processed food to faster cognitive decline and a higher risk of dementia. It also found that even a modest rise ...

New research links ultra-processed foods to reduced focus, highlighting how everyday diet choices may affect focus and ...

Researchers have known for years that eating a lot of ultra-processed food is associated with higher rates of depression and ...

This piece by Yahir Robles won third place in the Health and Science Journalism Workshop for high school students. More than half of what Americans eat and drink comes from ultra-processed foods and ...

While most of us know the ill-effects of eating ultra-processed foods, there seems to be some downsides that are still not known, brain alteration being one of them. Yes, apart from causing lifestyle ...

You sit down to work, but your brain just isn’t cooperating; you reread the same sentence three times, and you forget things you normally wouldn’t forget. That heavy, slow, unfocused feeling is called ...

A group of European scientists has found that ultra-processed foods increase the risk of a range of health conditions, ...

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