junk food

Cakes, biscuits, and energy bars are, for many people, just staples of everyday life—the snacks that keep them going through the day. But most people don’t realize just how easy it is ...

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 ...