Citation

Popkin B, Ng SW, Taillie LS. The mismatch between biological needs and the modern food industry. Nat Food. 2025 Mar;6(3):216-219. doi: 10.1038/s43016-025-01129-8. PMID: 40065132.

Abstract

The food industry has created ultra-processed food-like products that disrupt nature’s biological matrix and exploit our innate preferences for sugar, salt and fat — with the goal of encouraging overconsumption and maximizing profit. Increases in obesity, other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases and environmental harms have occurred as a result. Only major political commitments and the adoption of healthy food policies will curb ultra-processed food’s negative impact on global planetary and human health.