News & Impact

A curated collection of peer-reviewed research on the health impacts of ultraprocessed food consumption, food marketing, regulatory policy, and community-level interventions

Tobacco companies' influence may have extended beyond cigarettes. Research has indicated that addiction-centered methods honed in that industry also made their way into the U.S. food business.

Tobacco companies spent decades honing marketing strategies, flavor engineering and processing technologies that helped addict consumers to cigarettes. Then, in the 1980s, they started buying up large food firms and deployed these same strategies to sell more ultra-processed foods.

At a newly launched center, scientists investigate what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations.

A new Center to End Corporate Harm at UC San Francisco aims to tackle the global rise in chronic diseases linked to pollution and harmful products.

Citing an “industrial epidemic of disease,” a group of scientists have launched an organization aimed at tracking and preventing diseases tied to pollution and products pushed by influential companies.

Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations is not only driving harmful climate change but is also posing dire risks to human health at levels that require aggressive private and public efforts to limit exposures, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

Many fossil fuel–derived chemicals found in air, water, food, and manufactured products affect hormonal function. Exposure is associated with health risks, including cancers, cardiovascular disease, and infertility.