# ultra-processed food (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ultra-processed food. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Good Soldier Takes Over CDC](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/the-good-soldier-takes-over-cdc) _2026-08-19 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ The right person at the wrong time ## [The Dangers of Health Tips](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-health-tips) _2026-08-12 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ Public health in the age of the selfie ## [Demonstrating the Lethal Trifecta of AI security](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/prompt-injection/) _2026-08-07 · Chris Bowdon_ How best to convince colleagues that the Lethal Trifecta isn’t a boogie-man for risk-averse AI nerds, but a real thing that can actually happen? The perennial challenge with cybersecurity is explaining why you need to put the brakes on productive actions 1 . I could lecture my colleagues to make the point, but no one would enjoy that. So here’s a much better idea: a cute little demo of tricking AI… ## [Maybe The Kids Will Be OK After All](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/maybe-the-kids-will-be-all-right) _2026-08-05 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ The epidemic of depression subsides ## [Scientists Reversed a Kind of Chemical Damage Long Thought Permanent](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/scientists-reversed-a-kind-of-chemical) _2026-08-03 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ An engineered enzyme cut decades of accumulated protein damage in human tissue samples, though the result has only been shown outside a living body so far. ## [What Does Poverty Have to Do with Smoking?](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/what-does-poverty-have-to-do-with) _2026-07-29 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ Behavioral economics meets public health ## [Burned](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/burned) _2026-07-22 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ The health effects from global warming begin ## [What Ultra-Processed Food Actually Does to Your Bloodwork](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/what-ultra-processed-food-actually) _2026-07-21 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ Two large studies tracking real blood markers over time found measurable changes in weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol tied to ultra-processed food intake. ## [Who's Winning the Soda Wars?](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/whos-winning-the-soda-wars) _2026-07-15 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ A cautionary tale for ultra-processed food activists ## [Your Nervous System Affects Longevity As Much As Sleep or Diet](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/your-nervous-system-affects-longevity) _2026-07-14 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ New research links chronic stress dysregulation to a meaningfully higher risk of death, and the practices that calm it down are simple and well tested. ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HSTtQPt7pBLU) _2026-07-14 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Trump Slaughters the Deep State](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/trump-slaughters-the-deep-state) _2026-07-08 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ Which is why we need a National Board of Health ## [The 10-second balance test that predicts how long you’ll live](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/the-10-second-balance-test-that-predicts) _2026-07-07 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ How long you can stand on one leg tracks with your health, and you can train it in a minute a day. ## [Exploring Gymflation with AI](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/gymflation/) _2026-07-04 · Chris Bowdon_ You might be familiar with super hero inflation? Over time, super hero physiques on screen have become increasingly exaggerated. Batman’s progression from Adam West to Ben Affleck is a great example of this. Selected Batman portrayals, from oldest to more recent. LEGO Batman is not included, but is reported to have a 9-pack. Gymflation is much the same idea. As gym culture has skyrocketed, it… ## [What connection and purpose do for how long you live](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/what-connection-and-purpose-do-for) _2026-07-03 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ The evidence for healthy relationships and longevity ## [We Need to Talk About Gambling](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-gambling) _2026-07-01 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ Their hands are in our pockets ## [The Case for Ultra-Processed Food](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/the-case-for-ultra-processed-food) _2026-06-24 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ Why we need Twinkies that last 20 years ## [What lifting weights actually does to your aging brain](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/what-lifting-weights-actually-does) _2026-06-23 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ Three sessions a week does more for how you think than for how your brain looks on a scan. ## [Make America Healthy...er, Not Again](https://healthscaping.substack.com/p/make-america-healthyer-not-again) _2026-06-17 · Thomas Farley · Healthscaping_ The long view of children's health ## [15 quotes about walking, and the famous walkers who lived by them](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/15-quotes-about-walking-and-the-famous) _2026-06-16 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ Writers, philosophers, and composers worked out their best ideas on foot. Here’s what they said, and what the habit can do for you. ## [What cooking does to the air in your kitchen](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/what-cooking-does-to-the-air-in-your) _2026-06-09 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ What the research says about cooking fumes, gas stoves, and why ventilation matters more than most people think. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8SqA88Ew9nDa) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Why I Started a Second Newsletter](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/why-i-started-a-second-newsletter) _2026-06-05 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ Twelve months. Ten of them looked like nothing was happening. Then this: ## [The organ you can grow at any age](https://dradrianlaurence.substack.com/p/the-organ-you-can-grow-at-any-age) _2026-06-02 · Dr Adrian Laurence · Longevity Decoded_ Your muscles release signals that reach your brain, fat, liver, and bones, and you can build them at any age. ## [Ultra-processed children](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/ultra-processed-children) _2026-04-25 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ The slippery slope of school lunches ## [Letters to the Editor](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/letters-to-the-editor) _2026-03-09 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ Ultra-Processed Foods: When the Letters Page Is More Interesting Than the Paper ## [Tinned tomatoes and the mental health crisis](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/tinned-tomatoes-and-the-mental-health) _2026-02-26 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ How often do you eat processed, packaged, or fast food that is not made from fresh ingredients? ## [The Salt Lottery: Why Menu Labels Are Usually Wrong](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/the-salt-lottery-why-menu-labels) _2026-01-21 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ And that's just the start of nutrition science's measurement problem ## [Chocolate isn't a health food](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/chocolate-isnt-a-health-food) _2026-01-15 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ Some things are too good to be true ## [Are additives safe?](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/are-additives-safe) _2026-01-07 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Number ## [Linzertorte](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/linzertorte) _2025-12-21 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ Guaranteed non-ultra-processed Christmas treats ## [Crying wolf](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/crying-wolf) _2025-12-17 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ Why the focus on ultra-processed foods causes more harm than good. ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zd8NOvWYEvsy) _2025-12-17 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [An Apple a Day... But Which Apple?](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/an-apple-a-day-but-which-apple) _2025-12-10 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ An apple a day … ## [Gaussian Processes Again](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/gaussian-processes-again/) _2025-11-29 · Chris Bowdon_ One nice aspect of blogging about the things you’ve just learned is that when, inevitably, you forget those things, reading back your old posts can bring you up to speed pretty quickly. It’s like a slight groove has been worn and you can slip back into it more easily. (Now I realise why we say “get back in the groove” - it’s nothing to do with funk after all! 🤦‍♂️) Anyway, one such thing that I… ## [The convenient villain](https://ggck2.substack.com/p/the-convenient-villain) _2025-11-27 · Gunter Kuhnle · Nutrition, Food & Health_ Why Are We Attacking Messengers Instead of Evidence? ## [The quagmire of LoRA training on MPS](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/lora-quagmire/) _2025-11-11 · Chris Bowdon_ I’ve accumulated some knowledge and it’s time to give back to the community. The knowledge was earned the old-fashioned way, but ramming my head into different machine learning walls whilst trying to adapt a Gemma3 model on my MBP M2 Max (96GB). First wall: MLX is amazing, but has very sharp edges MLX runs noticeably faster than Pytorch on Apple Silicon, which is why apps like LM Studio use it as… ## [Prussian Horse Kicks II: Mixed Effects Models](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/horsekicks-mixed/) _2025-11-01 · Chris Bowdon_ Last time we used a quirky dataset to get acquainted with Generalised Linear Models. If you recall, the dataset is a count of deaths by horse kick, where every year all the corps in the army had some non-negative integer number of deaths and we were predicting the mean of the distribution for each year. Being count data we had to adapt the linear model to use a Poisson distribution, which itself… ## [How many parameters does GPT-5 have?](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/gpt-params/) _2025-08-26 · Chris Bowdon_ One of the many arguments I’ve been having with o3 recently was on how many parameters GPT models have. It’s quite often that I want to benchmark open source models against a comparable proprietary model, but Unfortunately since OpenAI (and Anthropic and Google and …) don’t reveal the parameter counts of their models. In hopes that there was a decent estimate somewhere on the web, I dispatched… ## [Introduction to Generalised Linear Models with Prussian Horse Kicks](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/horsekicks/) _2025-08-02 · Chris Bowdon_ Time to finally patch a hole in the leaky roof of my knowledge: what are Generalised Linear Models anyway? Groundwork: what are Linear Models anyway? Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) are a short step from Linear Models, provided you have the right understanding of linear models . There’s also some stats jargon to get a handle on. So we’ll start with an intuitive explanation of linear models. With… ## [Ultra-processed food: an AI polling simulation](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/food/) _2025-06-22 · Chris Bowdon_ There’s a little drip drip drip of scare stories about ultra-processed food (UPF) a phrase that I’d never heard until this year. I’m starting to get worried. Is everyone else worried? Well it turns out the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been running a tracker survey containing this question since mid-2023, so we can find out. An idea that’s generating a lot of excitement recently is the… ## [How fast Carlos Sainz Jr learns](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/sainz/) _2025-03-14 · Chris Bowdon_ The MAJOR story of F1’s 2025 season is of course the match-up between Sainz and Albon (sorry, did something happen at Ferrari?). Albon’s current level is quite a mystery, because since going up against Verstappen as a rookie he has only ever had rookie team mates himself. Sainz on the other hand has been measured against some of the best drivers on the grid and shown himself to be almost on their… ## [T. rex size distributions](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/t.rex/) _2025-02-15 · Chris Bowdon_ I ought to be spending this weekend working on a risk intelligence thing for work, but I’ve stumbled across something that brings my inner child immense joy and such things cannot be ignored. It is this 2019 paper “An Older and Exceptionally Large Adult Specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex” by Persons et al. First it’s cool to see paleontology in action, instead of filtered through talking head… ## [Gaussian Processes in R](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/gaussian-processes/) _2025-01-25 · Chris Bowdon_ I stumbled upon Gaussian Processes when looking into how the MIPRO prompt optimisation algorithm works and felt compelled to learn more about it. It’s a very nifty application of Bayesian modelling to analyse functions where data points are hard to get. This post is based on a great lesson by Carpentries , which is part of a longer series on probabilistic programming in R. Very worth checking out… ## [Can we predict who wins the Traitors with an R simulation?](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/traitors/) _2025-01-19 · Chris Bowdon_ Three years in, I am still absolutely hooked on the Traitors (the TV series). Sure, yes, they stretch ten minutes of gameplay into sixty minutes of “you know I love you, but…” and the weirdly maddening attempts to make “yourself” a polite version of “you”. And yes, there’s massive thumb-shaped groove on the scales because the producers are never going to let the game end early. But all the same,… ## [Latent F1 team and driver performance: fun with Bayesian models](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/f1-stan/f1.html) _2024-12-27 · Chris Bowdon_ For a bit of fun, let’s try and model the performance of F1 drivers and constructors in the 2024 season using Bayesian models. The aim is to more to learn about using Stan than determine deep truths about F1, since there’s far more to performance than we can easily model. We’ll vaguely imitate the f1-metrics model, which I used to eagerly await after each season. In this model there are latent… ## [Using Stan from R](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/using-stan-from-r/) _2024-12-26 · Chris Bowdon_ I’ve been trying to get the hang of Bayesian models with Stan. One of the hurdles has been using Stan from R, so in this post I’m jotting down what I’ve learned (mostly the hard way). RStan or CmdStanR? On the whole I had a much better time using CmdStanR than RStan . When I made a mistake that led to a runtime exception, RStan would simply die with this kind of error: Error in \`unserialize()\`: !… ## [Importance Sampling](https://cbowdon.github.io/posts/importance-sampling/) _2024-12-23 · Chris Bowdon_ The aim of this post is to teach myself basic Bayesian methods. I’ll set up a toy example problem and solve it. Let’s assume we have a natural event that happens with a variable periodicity e.g. a woman’s menstrual cycle. I’m drawing from this excellent blog on predicting a pregnancy , but doing a much simpler model because I am but a baby myself. The aim here is to see if we can find the mean…