A ‘tidal wave of harm’ will hit the UK due to Brits’ high ultra-processed food diet, experts warned today. The alert follows two studies which found that people who consume lots of mass-produced foods have a 24 per cent higher risk of suffering a heart attack and a 39 per cent increased chance of having dangerously high blood pressure. Campaigners called the findings, from researchers in Australia and China, the strongest evidence yet that eating ultra-processed foods is deadly. However, […]
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The typical British diet will cause a “tidal wave of harm”, experts have warned, as damning new research revealed even eating “low-fat” and “diet” processed foods raises the risk of heart problems. People who eat a lot of mass-produced foods are a quarter more likely to have heart attacks or strokes, one study found. While separate research revealed women who ate high levels of heavily processed foods – including “healthy” products like protein bars, low-fat yoghurts and brown sliced bread […]
It arrived just in time for a major heat wave: a big project devoted to simple salads, with 20 recipes from New York Times Cooking that capture all that is fresh and fragrant and vibrant in summer. These are what you make for dinner when you can’t fathom turning on the oven, and you pair it with an icy cold drink. You’ll see a few of the salad recipes below are from Genevieve Ko, the extraordinary editor and writer who […]
Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here. For the past few days, a heat wave of mind-boggling scale and intensity has gripped South Asia. More than 1 billion people in India and Pakistan have endured daytime highs of 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Delhi, the world’s second-largest city, has suffered through back-to-back days of 110-degree Fahrenheit heat. And Nawabshah, Pakistan—a city of nearly 230,000 people in the country’s desert south—came […]
