The Broken Plate 2025 report, published today, examined the trends impacting the UK’s food system and the actions needed from policymakers to ensure everyone can afford healthy and sustainable food.

A junk-food splurge shifted brain patterns in healthy young men despite their body weight and composition remaining unchanged, according to the study, published on 21 February in Nature Metabolism.

Mum keeps cupboard full of McDonald’s and junk food for years to prove it ‘never goes off’ On the internet alone, children are exposed to an estimated 15 billion junk food ads every year ...

Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. ... “I was the child of people who lived through the Depression,” she told me later — a “clean-your-plate kind of family.” ...

A government-sponsored junk food ban in schools across Mexico took effect on Saturday, officials said, as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Junk food, which is often used as an alternative to ultra-processed food, is high in sugars, unhealthy fats. These empty calories, does more than add to waistlines.

All other junk foods in Colorado paled in comparison, but fried foods like french fries and fried chicken came in second and third (9% and 6.5% named them as favorites, respectively).

Junk food advertising loophole revealed as experts warn children have favourite fast food logos for outlets like McDonalds, KFC and Burger King even by the age of five ...

As for the influencers spruiking junk food, they are seen as relatable and trustworthy by young people. "When influencers promote a food or drink, even subtly, it carries a lot of weight.