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Children who eat more ultra-processed foods show stronger brain responses to appetizing foods
October 23, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 23 -- The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine posted the following news release:

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Children who eat more ultra-processed foods show stronger brain responses to appetizing foods

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Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that these stronger brain responses to food images, which occurred in a brain region linked to reward and motivation, were associated with greater increase . . .

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