Food Processing

The concept of food addiction is a hotly debated one.

Addiction to highly processed foods can lead to adverse health outcomes, but little is understood about why some patients show a higher propensity for these foods and how to manage the condition in a primary care setting.

High consumption of processed foods was associated with greater variability in systolic BP during sleep and greater odds of extreme nocturnal dipping, researchers reported.

A research version of the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT provided appropriate recommendations for most CVD queries, according to findings published in JAMA.

Food products in the United States often include phosphate content but it is rare that the addition is described for consumers, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

Consuming more than 20% of total daily calories from ultra-processed foods was associated with faster decline in cognition and executive function, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.

Limiting ultraprocessed food consumption could prevent thousands of deaths in Brazil each year, according to researchers.

The world’s first partial heart transplant was recently completed at Duke Health. The procedure was performed using living arteries and valves from a donor heart, which were fused onto the existing heart of a newborn.

Adolescents who ate more candy, pastries and frozen desserts during the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to increase consumption of other ultra-processed foods compared with teens reporting eating fewer ultra-processed foods, data show.

Compared with patients without chronic kidney disease, patients with CKD are more likely to consume a limited number of fruits and vegetables, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.