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According to recent research presented at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2022, Sept. 7–10, 2022 in San Diego, some ultra-processed foods, like candy, pastries, and frozen desserts, may be "gateway" foods for teenagers, encouraging them to consume larger amounts of other unhealthy foods. The meeting is the best forum for scientific discussion of latest developments in basic and clinical research on hypertension and its links to obesity, genetics, heart and renal disease, stroke, and other conditions. According to the research, cutting back on certain gateway foods may have an effect on how much overall ultra-processed food consumption, which is characterized by high levels of sugar, salt, harmful trans fat, and artificial tastes and colors, is consumed. More than 60% of the calories consumed daily by Americans come from ultra-processed foods like bread, cereal, sweets, soda, and processed meats. High intake of ultra-processed foods has be...

A dieter who struggles with cravings for fatty foods could be inclined to put the blame on their tongue because it can be difficult to resist the delightful flavor of butter or ice cream. However, brand-new studies looking into what makes us hungry have found a brand-new link between the gut and the brain that fuels our appetite for fat. Fat entering the intestines causes a signal to be triggered, according to research conducted on mice at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. Conducted along nerves to the brain, this signal generates a desire for fatty meals. The new research, which will be published in Nature on September 7, 2022, suggests that it may be possible to interfere with this gut-brain connection in order to avoid bad decisions and solve the escalating worldwide health crisis brought on by overeating. "We live in unusual times," stated first author Mengtong Li, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Charles Zuker's lab at the Zuckerman Institute who was fu...

The ease of pre-cooked and instant meals may make it simple for many Americans to overlook the less-than-ideal nutritional information, but after finding a connection between the frequent consumption of ultra-processed foods and an elevated risk of colorectal cancer, a group of researchers led by those at Tufts University and Harvard University hope that will change. According to a study that was released on August 31 in The BMJ, men who consumed a lot of ultra-processed foods had a 29% higher risk of getting colorectal cancer, which is the third most common cancer diagnosed in the country, than those who consumed far less of it. In women, they did not discover the similar relationship. Lu Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the study's principal author, said, "We initially thought that colorectal cancer could be the cancer most impacted by food compared to other cancer types." "The majority of u...