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• Cross sectional construct validity analysis of pooled national dietary surveys Online publication date confirmed against the PubMed publication date field.

  A simple count of food groups predicted nutrient adequacy better than the Planetary Health Diet Index

  Across 152,004 people in 26 countries, the sustainability oriented diet index did track nutrient adequacy in the right direction. A plain count of how many food groups someone ate tracked it about twice as strongly.

  The American Journal of · Hanley-Cook et al. · Ghent University · 26 August 2026 · PMID 42648644

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• Exploratory prospective cohort study Date verified

  Markers of ultra-processed food and incident arterial hypertension in the UK Biobank

  Rather than treating ultra-processed food as one category, German researchers broke it into nine groups of specific additives and followed 101,560 UK Biobank participants for a median of ten and a half years. Only four of the nine additive categories tracked with new hypertension. Five showed no association at all, and three specific additives ran the other way.

  European Heart Journal · Krost et al. · Justus-Liebig University of Giessen · 3 August 2026 · PMID 42545878

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• Prospective cohort study in UK Biobank Published 5 June 2026, before this issue's coverage window. Carried as a catch up.

  Plant-Based Diets, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Risks of Mortality and Major Chronic Diseases: A Prospective Cohort Study

  Published on 5 June 2026, this UK Biobank analysis of 124,836 adults found that people sticking closely to a healthy plant based pattern had lower rates of death, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease whether that pattern was high or low in ultra processed food. The authors read this as diet quality mattering more than processing level.

  The Lancet Regional Health · Thompson et al. · Queen's University Belfast · 5 June 2026 · PMID 42294356

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