Health Claims

Ultra-processed foods might have several chemicals that could cause cancer. These come from additives, from changes during manufacturing, and from packaging materials. They might work together to be...

Eating a lot of ultra-processed foods might change the bacteria in your gut, which could lead to stomach and bowel problems that cause inflammation.

Studies have found that people who eat a lot of packaged and processed foods are more likely to get certain types of cancer, but we can't say for sure if the foods directly cause the cancer because...

Eating more salty foods might raise the chance of getting stomach cancer in grown-ups, according to a big review of health studies.

Eating a lot of salt might raise the chance of stomach cancer more for Japanese people than for others, according to big studies that looked at many groups over time.

Eating a lot of salt might raise your chances of getting stomach cancer, especially in adults. The more salt you eat, the higher the risk seems to be.

Eating a lot of highly processed foods, like packaged snacks and ready meals, might raise your chance of getting pancreatic cancer by almost half, according to some big studies on people.

Eating a lot of ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks and ready-to-eat meals, might raise your chances of getting colorectal cancer by about 30%.

Eating more ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks or ready meals, might raise your chance of getting breast cancer by 11% for every 10% increase in how much you eat.

Eating more ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks and ready meals, might raise your chances of getting cancer by 13% for every extra 10% of these foods in your diet.

New research is looking at how the Mediterranean diet changes gut bacteria in ways that might help with diabetes, like increasing good bacteria and producing helpful compounds.

Scientists are studying how parts of the Mediterranean diet, like olive oil and beans, might help with diabetes by reducing inflammation, fighting damage in the body, and affecting gut bacteria.

Studies on the Mediterranean diet and diabetes often talk about related health issues like heart disease and insulin problems, showing what researchers are most interested in.

The journal Nutrients has the most studies and is most often referenced by others in research about the Mediterranean diet and diabetes.

More and more studies about the Mediterranean diet and diabetes have been done over the last decade, especially in countries like Spain, Italy, the US, China, and Greece.

Scientists study how much arsenic in food might harm people, and this helps create smart rules to make food safer by reducing arsenic.

Arsenic sometimes gets into our food from nature or pollution, and the rules in the US don't cover all foods well, even though we know it can be bad for our health.

Eating certain foods regularly that contain a chemical called inorganic arsenic might raise your chances of getting bladder, lung, and skin cancer. For example, it could lead to thousands of extra...

This claim says that when breast cancer tumors have more insulin receptors, they tend to be bigger, more aggressive, and have more estrogen receptors. It suggests that insulin might be playing a role...

In breast cancer, only the cancer cells have insulin receptors, while other nearby cells don't, showing these receptors are specific to the cancer cells.

In simple terms, this means that in breast cancer tissues, the parts that respond to insulin still work normally, which might help the cancer cells grow or function.

Breast cancer tissues have much more insulin receptors than healthy breast tissues, which might mean these receptors play a part in how breast cancer develops.

Drinking sugary drinks might increase your chance of getting cancer because of the sugar they contain. For every extra spoonful of sugar you drink daily, your cancer risk could go up by 16%. When...

Drinking diet sodas and other artificially sweetened drinks doesn't seem to raise your cancer risk based on this study, but they didn't look at people who drank a lot of them.