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Health and Wellness | World: The authors urged governments worldwide to tackle ultra-processed foods with bold measures, like increasing taxes on them and tighter regulations on their sales in schools and workplaces to reduce sales. Consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) raises the risk of early death many times, reveals new research, rekindling appeals for a clampdown on UPF. The study says that every 10% additional consumption of ultra-processed food, like bread, cakes, and ready [...]

Adverse situations experienced by the mother during childhood-such as neglect or physical, psychological or sexual violence-can trigger excessive weight gain in male children as early as the first two months of life. This was shown in a study that followed 352 pairs of newborns and their mothers in the cities of Guarulhos and São Paulo, Brazil. The results were published in the journal Scientific Reports. The analyses indicated the occurrence of very early metabolic alterations in [...]

New Delhi, April 28 Do you regularly eat ready-to-eat-or-heat foods? Beware, a global study on Monday showed that the consumption of such ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can significantly increase the risk of preventable premature deaths. Previous studies have linked UPFs -- rich in sodium, trans fats, and sugar -- with 32 different diseases including cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, some types of cancer, and depression. The new study analysed data from nationally representative [...]

What's the story A recent study has linked the intake of ultra-processed foods to a higher risk of dying prematurely. The study, which included more than 240,000 people, was co-authored by Brazil's University of Sao Paulo's Carlos Augusto Monteiro. Monteiro's NOVA system classifies foods based on how processed they are. Under his classification, ultra-processed foods are those that contain little to no whole food and are made from "chemically manipulated [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Do you regularly eat ready-to-eat-or-heat foods? Beware, a global study on Monday showed that the consumption of such ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can significantly increase the risk of preventable premature deaths. Previous studies have linked UPFs — rich in sodium, trans fats, and sugar — with 32 different diseases including cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, some types of cancer, and depression. The new study analysed data from nationally [...]

Previous studies have linked ultra-processed foods with 32 different diseases including cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, some types of cancer, and depression Do you regularly eat ready-to-eat-or-heat foods? Beware, a global study on Monday showed that the consumption of such ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can significantly increase the risk of preventable premature deaths. Previous studies have linked UPFs -- rich in sodium, trans fats, and sugar -- with 32 different diseases [...]

Adverse situations experienced by the mother during childhood – such as neglect or physical, psychological or sexual violence – can trigger excessive weight gain in male children as early as the first two months of life. This was shown in a study that followed 352 pairs of newborns and their mothers in the cities of Guarulhos and São Paulo, Brazil. The results were published in the journal Scientific Reports. The analyses indicated the occurrence of very early metabolic [...]

Do you regularly eat ready-to-eat-or-heat foods? Beware, a global study on Monday showed that the consumption of such ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can significantly increase the risk of preventable premature deaths. Previous studies have linked UPFs - rich in sodium, trans fats, and sugar - with 32 different diseases, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, some types of cancer, and depression. The new study analysed data from nationally representative dietary surveys and [...]

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the oldest known ant fossil, dating back 113 million years, in northeastern Brazil. Published in the journal Current Biology, this finding reveals that ants were already widely distributed and highly diversified early in their evolutionary history. The ancient specimen, belonging to the extinct subfamily Haidomyrmecinae — commonly known as hell ants — was preserved in limestone from the renowned Crato Formation, famous for [...]