Kids who ate more ultra-processed food had stronger reward-brain reactions to pictures of cookies and fries, and they gained more body fat a year later

Ultra-processed foods make up about 67% of the calories American children eat. Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC wanted to know whether those foods change how a…

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Adults newly diagnosed with autism today look very different on paper than those diagnosed in 2010, a study of 33 million people found

Adult autism diagnoses have risen sharply in many countries over the past 15 years. Researchers in the UK and Sweden went through…

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Scientists found a blood signature of ultra-processed diets, and it explained about half of their link to heart disease

Ultra-processed food has been linked to heart disease and type 2 diabetes in study after study, but how it does the damage…

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Doctors still advise healthy people against this Alzheimer’s blood test, even though at its highest levels it predicted a 78% chance of decline in 10 years

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Scientists found that when chronic back pain flares, the brain switches on the network tied to your sense of self, the opposite of what ordinary pain does

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and for many people it never fully goes away. Researchers at UC San Diego wanted to see what happens in…

Oct 31 · 3 min read

Kids who ate more ultra-processed food had stronger reward-brain reactions to pictures of cookies and fries, and they gained more body fat a year later

Adults newly diagnosed with autism today look very different on paper than those diagnosed in 2010, a study of 33 million people found

Scientists found a blood signature of ultra-processed diets, and it explained about half of their link to heart disease

Doctors still advise healthy people against this Alzheimer’s blood test, even though at its highest levels it predicted a 78% chance of decline in 10 years

Scientists found that when chronic back pain flares, the brain switches on the network tied to your sense of self, the opposite of what ordinary pain does

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