8 simple ways to reduce ultra-processed foods in your diet
Scaling down your intake can help keep you healthy, and it may be easier than you think.
- Reviewed by Teresa Fung, MS, RD, ScD, Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
other major health conditionsWhat are ultra-processed foods?
Teresa Fung, adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, uses simple terms. “They’re a form of food that’s very far from what it was like originally,” she explains. “It’s the difference between a bag of a potato chips and a potato.”
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Teresa Fung, MS, RD, ScD, Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
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