What's the latest on ultra-processed foods, weight loss, and more? Former NIH researcher Kevin Hall talks about his new book on how food nourishes and harms us.
The California Legislature passed Senate Bill 646, the first law in the nation to require testing and public disclosure of toxic heavy metals in prenatal supplements. This landmark bill will protect maternal and fetal health by requiring manufacturers to test for and disclose levels of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead—substances that can impair neurodevelopment and cause other serious harms.
Contra Costa County, California, will likely become the first county to pass an ordinance improving the nutritional quality of the foods and beverages sold in the only place in the grocery store where customers must pass through and wait: the checkout aisles.
Despite its “Make America Healthy Again” rhetoric, the Trump administration seems hell-bent on making our health worse.
Here’s some of what we’re tracking at CSPI (Nutrition Action’s publisher):
FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from public scrutiny.
