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02/15/2026: Generally Recognized as Safe, Youngest Survivors

Feb 16, 2026
Investigative reporting on the controversy around the GRAS classification and calls to rethink ultra-processed food ingredients. Discussions about how processed starches and sweeteners affect the brain and public health, and political and legal efforts to change food policy. A separate human-interest tale follows three infants born in Nazi camps who survived against all odds and later reunited.
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INSIGHT

Ultra-Processed Foods Explain Rising Obesity

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. highlights rising obesity and malnutrition tied to ultra-processed diets.
  • He emphasizes it's not laziness but engineered, low-nutrition, high-calorie foods harming health.
ADVICE

Force Safety Proof For GRAS Ingredients

  • David Kessler petitioned the FDA to revoke GRAS status for refined carbohydrates unless safety is proven.
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledges to use gold-standard science to review GRAS ingredients.
INSIGHT

Processed Carbs Drive Metabolic Harm

  • David Kessler argues many processed starches and sweeteners are metabolically harmful and rapidly absorbed.
  • He links those ingredients to overeating, fatty liver, and cardiometabolic disease.
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