Learn about the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines, which focus on limiting processed foods, and what they mean for school meals.

The new U.S. Dietary Guidelines, announced Jan. 7 by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., include recommendations for more protein, less sugar and ultra-processed foods. The guidelines also loosen restrictions on alcoholic drinks.

As the Trump administration looks to create a federal definition of ultra-processed foods, the question of the best way to differentiate products within a category that can lump packaged whole-wheat bread together with soda and cheese puffs has been the subject of much debate.

A grocery store deli display with packaged meat and cheese - ACHPF/Shutterstock If you've ever stood paralyzed in the grocery store's meat section, trying to make a healthier choice, you're not alone. With so many cold cuts, cured meats, and specialty ...

WASHINGTON - Somewhere, the late, great Clara Peller is smiling. Peller, many of our more mature readers will remember, was the Russian-born manicurist who began an American advertising sensation as the octogenarian star of Wendy's "Where's the beef?

Norwegians eat more processed meat such as sausages and salami than in the other Nordic countries. For the first time, researchers have calculated the disease burden and years of life lost caused by an unhealthy diet.