{"id":538581,"date":"2026-06-16T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/538581\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:06:11","slug":"what-are-ultra-processed-foods-and-what-are-they-doing-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/538581\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Ultra-Processed Foods and What Are They Doing to Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Each year WNYC hosts a &#8220;health convening,&#8221; with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as an opportunity for healthcare experts and practitioners to inform WNYC&#8217;s health reporting. This year, the topic is ultra-processed foods and how they affect our health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\"><strong>Kevin Hall<\/strong>, Ph.D., former senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discusses his groundbreaking, tightly controlled metabolic ward trials and mathematical models tracking how human bodies respond to ultra-processed foods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Photo: PRODUCTION &#8211; 02 June 2026, Bavaria, Erlangen: A laboratory employee at the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) inoculates a culture medium in a Petri dish with an eyelet as part of a food analysis. The LGL examines around 60,000 samples from the food sector every year for a wide range of parameters. Whether testing for microbial contamination or the composition of food: Official laboratory analysis is a key factor in the early detection of food-related health risks. Photo: Daniel Karmann\/dpa (Photo by Daniel Karmann\/picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year WNYC hosts a &#8220;health convening,&#8221; with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as an opportunity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[365,197515,1067,18,135,19,17,337,968,5,34330,508,1113,4119,5485,208836,208837],"class_list":["post-538581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-arts","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-nutrition","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116761590989408769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}