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I lead the UCSF Food Policy Lab, where we study ultraprocessed foods as a 21st-century vector of chronic disease. I'm new to Bluesky--please follow!
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Glad to see that states are acting on this. I'm currently helping our state health department respond to @governor.ca.gov executive order on #ultraprocessedfoods

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We just launched the UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm, which brings scientists who study a range of industries as vectors of chronic disease. Commercial products, including ultraprocessed foods, tobacco and alcohol, are the leading cause of death in the 21st century. prheucsf.blog/2025/01/16/n...

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Stunned by attacks on the scientific research system, early career scientists plan a D.C. demonstration and a national ‘Stand Up for Science’ event.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

"Thomas Galligan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist for Food Additives and Supplements with [CSPI]...said dyes have no nutritional benefit and are nothing more than a marketing tool." Say it louder for the people in the back! 📣

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

High sugar. Virtually no nutritional value... and yet, global sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is on the rise. indianexpress.com/article/life...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

In the developed world, we are lonelier, more anxious and more depressed than ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/m...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Big day in Albany! Yesterday, CSPI's Jensen Jose, Sarah Sorscher, and Meghan Enslow joined Assemblymember Anna Kelles, Environmental Working Group, @consumerreports.org, and @iphnetwork.bsky.social to meet with lawmakers to garner support for the Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

We’re on the way to putting harmful synthetic dyes in the garbage for good! The Peeps Marshmallow Bunnies shown in the video is just one example of a food that now uses natural dyes and is still bright and colorful. (1/3)

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

In this podcast, I tell the story of working on the first soda taxes in America and how the beverage industry has fought to suppress effective local ballot initiatives to improve nutrition and health. @tradeoffs.org @kffhealthnews.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social tradeoffs.org/2025/02/06/r...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Read my new op-ed urging Congress to end the hidden SNAP subsidy that props up the healthiest parts of the ultraprocessed food industry. Subsidize fresh fruit and vegetable production instead. thehill.com/opinion/heal... #obesity #metabolichealth @cspi.bsky.social @americanheart.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We are at a point of reckoning with our unhealthy food environment. Americans deserve healthy food and truthful scientific information, free from industry interference. www.usnews.com/news/health-... @robertlustigmd.bsky.social @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social #obesity @kffhealthnews.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Antitrust is an underused tool for food policy. We have too much concentration in the packaged food industry. To improve health, and increase economic efficiency, we need to promote small business development and better regulate large food corporations. #foodpolicy #obesity #diabetes

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