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Step aside, MAHA. The country’s largest heart-health organization has just released its long-awaited guidelines for the consumption of ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs .

The new scientific advisory statement from the American Heart Association comes just days before the arrival of the second “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA Commission report, spearheaded by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The first MAHA report, released in May , described how ultraprocessed foods were contributing to chronic illnesses in children. The second installment, due by Tuesday , is expected to lay out proposed policy changes.

The American Heart Association’s key message is not

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