Get Healthy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires nutrition labels on most packaged food items, and gaining a basic ...

One major culprit often lurking in our diets is ultra-processed food. But what does “ultra-processed” actually mean? Ultra-processed foods differ from regular processed foods because they ...

Readers had a lot to say about my latest column on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed front-of-package labels. Most ...

I stopped eating ultra-processed food altogether and have spent the last year learning more and more about them, paying ...

What makes foods so easy to overeat isn’t the level of processing — it’s the density of calories, a.k.a. energy density.

Public health expert Emily Abel discusses with STAT the challenges to finding truly gluten-free foods, the topic of her new ...