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Effects Of 'Hyper-Palatable' Foods Across Four Diets

Fast Food Menus More Unhealthy Than 30 Years Ago

If losing weight was among your 2023 resolutions, findings by researchers from the University of Kansas and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may provide clearer guidance about the food you put on your plate. Using previous study data, researchers sought to determine what characteristics of meals were important for determining how many calories were …

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Data Driven Definition Of Unhealthy Pervasive Hyper Palatable Foods

Data Driven Definition Of Unhealthy Pervasive Hyper Palatable Foods

Recent research published in Obesity offers some specific metrics that may qualify foods as being hyper palatable, and it also finds most of the foods consumed within America as meeting this criteria: “betchya can’t eat just one!” Potato chips, much like so many other foods in the American diet can pack of mix of ingredients …

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