{"id":1030811,"date":"2026-06-16T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:17","slug":"what-are-ultra-processed-foods-and-what-are-they-doing-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030811\/","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":1030812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4318],"tags":[4021,26018,2766,105,269,4447,12,108153,4434,196,7482,9440,16,15,259678,284540],"class_list":["post-1030811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-arts","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-health","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-nutrition","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116761461523168663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}