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The papers reviewed years' worth of evidence linking ultra-processed foods to poor health outcomes, including an increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, Crohn's disease, and dying prematurely.
The researchers say ultra-processed foods have been shown to harm nearly all the organ systems in the human body.
These foods have rapidly displaced fresh foods and traditional diets around the world, even as diet-related diseases have been rising.
The authors say government policies like soda taxes, warning labels, and limiting these foods in school meals are urgently needed.
The papers appear in the medical journal The Lancet.
The papers reviewed years worth of evidence linking ultra processed foods to poor health outcomes, including an increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, Crohn's disease, and dying prematurely.
The researchers write that, quote, ultra processed foods harm every major organ system in the human body.
These foods have rapidly displaced fresh foods and traditional diets around the world, even as diet related diseases have been rising.
The authors say government policies like soda taxes, warning labels, and limiting the use of these foods in school meals are urgently needed.
The papers appear in the journal The Lancet.
Children usually get their first dose of the measles vaccine between the ages of 12 and 15 months.
But in March of this year, as a massive measles outbreak spread rapidly in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that infants in the state get their first dose early, between 6 and 11 months of age.
Now, an analysis finds that in the months after that recommendation, early vaccinations among Texas children spiked by 20%.
By contrast, less than 1% of kids in the state got an early first dose in prior years.
In a related commentary, researchers say this rapid early uptake of the vaccine likely contributed to the slowing of measles transmission in Texas by May of this year.
About 1 in 10 babies born across the U.S.
last year was premature, and those rates were much higher in some U.S.