junk food

A ban on multibuy deals such as buy one get one free for less healthy food will be put off for a year in light of the "unprecedented global economic situation," the ...

The food giant is mounting a legal challenge against new government rules to tackle child obesity that would ...

Pizza, the number one go-to on a busy night and often considered "junk food" by many. Considering it ...

It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items rather than a ...

Emotional, nonrational, even explosive remarks in public discourse have escalated in recent years. This is sometimes attributed to social ...

Humans (and our ancestors) have been processing food for at least 1.8 million years. Roasting, drying, grinding, and other ...

Adan Prescott was just 18 when his father, an Army veteran, died of a heart attack in 2013. ...

An endless number of studies and experts emphasize that eating a healthy diet is essential for overall health and disease ...

Cakes, biscuits, and energy bars are, for many people, just staples of everyday life—the snacks that keep them going through ...

A 17-year-old British boy who subsisted on a diet consisting mostly of french fries, chips, processed meat, and ...

Endless studies and experts tell us that eating a healthy diet is essential for overall health and disease prevention. They ...

Whether you are slim or obese, one thing is clear: calorie-dense processed foods increase cancer risk, regardless of ...

Junk food—it’s a term people use loosely, and it can mean different things depending on the person. Pizza ...

In ‘The Aveggies: Age of Bon Bon’ and their heroic pals keep healthy treats from being turned into ...

Health promotion takes many forms.

Why are some foods—like chocolate, pizza, and French fries—more addictive than others—like brown rice or salmon?

This last week, my working week started in London and ended in Mexico City. Beginning on one side ...

Avoiding these seven categories of ingredients is a huge step in the right direction to making better, more ...

It was observed that children with higher consumption of takeout foods, processed meats, soft drinks and other refined ...

Junk food, high in fat and sugar, is so much more than excessive calories. It truly creates addiction ...

Processed foods contain carefully orchestrated flavors and other sensory factors designed to be as addictive as possible...

The constant desire for fatty foods can lead to binge eating and gluttony, which in turn results in ...

With childhood obesity rates rising, schools should play a central role in healthy eating. Instead, low nutrition standards ...

  Why do we keep repeating unhealthy lifestyle patterns? Why do we eat foods that we are allergic ...

Who doesn’t pine for a Krispy Kreme donut now and again? Or perhaps a bag of greasy French ...

Norway’s Health Ministry is proposing to ban advertisements aimed at children for “unhealthy” food including sodas, cookies, chocolate, ...

Regular tooth brushing has little effect on the teeth of adolescents who consume junk food sugar, suggests new ...