City mandates requiring fast-food and chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus have had mixed success at actually curbing people’s caloric intake. A study published this past October in the ...

Most kids' menu items offered by the nation's top 200 restaurant chains exceed the calorie counts recommended by nutrition experts, a new RAND Corporation study has found. The findings highlight the ...

About 45% of the total daily energy intake for Canadian 3-year-olds came from ultra-processed foods, researchers reported in a study published last week in JAMA Network Open. Adobe stock/HealthDay ...

Children are also often targeted with advertising for these foods, she said. Burgers and other sandwiches were found to be the largest contributors of calories from ultraprocessed foods for both kids ...

Canadian youngsters are munching loads of ultra-processed foods, increasing their lifelong risk of obesity, a new study says. "We saw that ultra-processed foods contributed to almost half of a child's ...

(CNN) — Most of the American diet is comprised of calories from ultraprocessed foods, which have been linked to a myriad of poor health outcomes and are a key target in US Health and Human Services ...