Ultra-processed food (UPF) can be harmful to the population’s health. To establish associations between UPF and health outcomes, consumption assessed using availability data, such as purchase lists or household budget surveys. The aim of this systematic review was search studies that related with noncommunicable diseases their risk factors. PRISMA guidelines were used. Searches performed in Pub...

Editorials 3 D r B r o c k C h i s h o l m , t h e fi r s t Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was a psychiatrist and shepherded the notion that mental and physical health were intimately linked. He famously stated that " without mental health there can be no true physical health ". 1 Half a century later, we have strong evidence elucidating the bidirectional relationship ...

We have witnessed a change in disease patterns contributing to the global burden of disease, with a shift from early childhood deaths due to the classic infectious communicable diseases to years lived with disability from chronic noncommunicable diseases. In both developing and developed countries, the years lived with disability attributable to chronic disease have increased: cardiovascular di...