First, using an addictive substance causes the release of a chemical messenger called dopamine in the reward network, which ...

In a paper published in The Milbank Quarterly, researchers from Harvard, Duke University, and the University of Michigan ...

The City of San Francisco recently filed a lawsuit against the country largest manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultraprocessed foods like donuts and pizza are particularly rewarding to a person's brain. For foods to be potentially addictive, ...

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers ...

Researchers say Big Food borrowed the tobacco playbook—now regulators are being urged to respond.

Health and Human Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. blamed the major tobacco companies for manufacturing bad, ultra-processed ...

While taking part in a fast at the very beginning of the year, one which required me to forgo meats, processed foods and any drinks other than water (and maybe 100 percent fruit juice), I found myself ...

ST. LOUIS - Robin Oliver, 48, of Imperial, Mo., has lost and regained 40 pounds several times over the last 12 years. She loses the weight by following Weight Watchers. But when she goes off the point ...

A strikingly high number of people are addicted to food, and many don’t even know it. Using the Yale Food Addiction Scale, ...

Sunaina Roshan opens up about her struggle with alcohol and food addiction, revealing how accepting the problem became a life-changing step towards healing and recovery. TheHealthSite.com ...