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Hispanic woman reading ingredients on bag of potato chips

Just how much ultra-processed food are we eating? Markers in blood and urine may hold a clue

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia)

Zepbound users lost nearly 50% more weight than those on Wegovy in first head-to-head study

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

A scientist pours liquid out of a big bottle into a small container

Bugs, beets, and Barbie pink: How scientists are mixing up natural solutions to comply with RFK Jr.’s crackdown on artificial colors

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

Technician Heather Browning packages a color sample made of beet powder for a customer at Sensient Technologies Corp., a color additive manufacturing company, in St. Louis., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

RFK Jr.’s push to eliminate petroleum-based artificial food dyes may drive industry to tiny bugs in Peru to recreate ‘Barbie pink’

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

RFK Jr. is pushing the food industry to voluntarily drop petroleum-based artificial colors—but has stopped short of promising a formal ban

By Jonel Aleccia, Matthew Perrone, and others

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

RFK Jr., Indiana, and Arkansas want to control food and drink SNAP users can buy with their $6.20 a day

By Jonel Aleccia, Andrew DeMillo, and others

A young girl holds a carton of milk

Is whole milk healthier? Why RFK Jr. wants to ditch the Obama-era requirement for lower calorie milk in school lunches

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

This undated photo released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows a box of a Lean Cuisine meal. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP)

Nestle is recalling Lean Cuisine and Stouffer’s meals because they may contain ‘wood-like material’ linked to choking

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

Chicken nuggets on a blue table

The government wants to understand the health effects of ultraprocessed foods so it paid people $5,000 to eat chicken nuggets for science

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

RFK Jr. speaks in front of a microphone

RFK Jr. suggests banning candy and soda from the $113 billion government program for low-income families: ‘We shouldn’t be subsidizing people to eat poison’

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

Two cows in a field

A new type of bird flu has spread to cows in Nebraska; expert warns it could ‘make COVID seem like a walk in the park’

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

File – Dairy cows stand in a field outside of a milking barn at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall,File)

Second type of H5N1 bird flu has infected U.S. dairy cows in Nevada

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

USDA inspectors found insects, slime and ‘general filth’ at Boar’s Head plants, records show

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press

A dirty duck is being handled by a man wearing gloves

First severe case of bird flu in the U.S. leaves Louisiana patient in critical condition

By Mike Stobbe, Jonel Aleccia, and others

Mexican street food

Nutrition experts warn Americans to make 2 changes to their diets for better health

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press