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Poor diets at age 56 associated with higher risks 10 years laterKey Takeaways -Diets high in ultraprocessed foods were tied to prodromal Parkinson's disease, incident Parkinson's, and Parkinson's-specific mortality. -The study followed 120,000 U.K. Biobank participants for a median of 10.5 years. -Ultraprocessed food intake has been tied to dementia, but data about Parkinson's disease were sparse until recently. A diet high in ultraprocessed foods was tied to a higher risk of Parkinson's disease, prospective data from the U.K. Biobank suggested. Over a median follow-up of 10.5 years, the highest quartile of ultraprocessed food consumption was associated with three or...

Diets rich in phosphate additives, commonly found in processed foods, can increase blood pressure by triggering a brain signaling pathway and overactivating the sympathetic nervous system that regulates cardiovascular function, researchers discovered. Their findings could lead to treatment strategies for patients with hypertension caused by overconsumption of foods containing high levels of phosphates. "This research uncovers a previously unrecognized brain-mediated mechanism by which high dietary phosphate intake promotes hypertension and sympathetic overactivation, highlighting central fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling as a novel therapeutic target," said Han Kyul Kim, Ph.D. Inorganic phosphate is often used as a preservative or flavor enhancer...

“Ultraprocessed foods.” That sounds really bad. In fact, not just really bad, but really, really bad. Bad on a level with, maybe, “assault rifles” or “cis-heteronormativity.” Definitely, with a condemnatory name like that, “ultraprocessed foods” would be something that no sensible person would ever eat, or at least certainly not in large quantities. The term “ultraprocessed foods” has been in usage for a while, but the frequency seems to have exploded everywhere in the past few months. Perhaps that has resulted from the naming of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy...

Name a common condition — heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, irritable bowel syndrome — and chances are good that following a diet high in ultraprocessed foods has been linked to it. But the ultraprocessed food category is large and wide-ranging. It makes up an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. food supply, and contains stereotypically “unhealthy” products like sodas, candies and hot dogs as well as seemingly “healthy” ones like whole grain breads, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts and plant milks. It’s a “hodgepodge of foods,” some of which are likely more harmful than others, said Josiemer Mattei, an...

Students at a Wisconsin high school are boycotting the lunch program, upset over tiny portions and declining quality. Meghan Hellrood, a senior at D.C. Everest High School in Weston, talked to Ainsley Earhardt this morning to explain why she’s leading the protest against the federal program, which was championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. […] “It’s not actually giving us healthy foods. It’s giving us small portions of very processed foods. Kids aren’t happy about that,” said Hellrood, referring to the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, which was passed in 2010 as part of an effort to combat childhood obesity....

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2006 -- Fourteen men believed to be high-level terrorist leaders arrived in recent days at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and were transferred to Defense Department custody without incident, the commander of the U.S. military detention facility there said today. President Bush announced yesterday that the 14 men -- including individuals believed to be behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the bombings of the USS Cole in Yemen and two U.S. embassies in Africa -- had been moved to Guantanamo Bay and would stand trial by military commissions. “They arrived safely, and all appeared to...

U.S. Halts French Processed Meat Imports Wednesday February 25, 2004 12:01 AM By ANGELA DOLAND Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - The United States is suspending imports of all French processed meat and poultry products, including cold cuts and delicacies like foie gras, because of food safety concerns, officials in both countries said Tuesday. U.S. experts who inspected plants in France starting last month said they didn't conform with U.S. food safety requirements. Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service found the sanitation systems failed to meet U.S. standards, said Steve Cohen, a department spokesman....