The Brief

For most Americans, more than half of their calories are from eating ultra-processed foods full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

The CDC report used data from August 2021 to August 2023 to reach that conclusion, and the report could have big implications as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to criticize such foods and blame them for causing disease.

Americans’ ultra-processed diets

What they're saying:

"We are poisoning ourselves and it’s coming principally from these ultra-processed foods," Kennedy told Fox News earlier this year.

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The new CDC report used the most common definition based on

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