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Ultra-Processed Foods Lawsuit
Was Your Child Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes? Contact Us to Learn About the Lawsuit Seeking Compensation from Food Manufacturers.
It’s Not Processed Foods – It’s ULTRA-Processed Foods.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are less nutritious than processed foods because they’re more altered from their natural state. UPFs are actually not foods at all, despite being hyped and sold as food “options.” Children and teens are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) when they eat a steady diet of these foods, says the AMA. 1
There’s something gratifying about coming home late from work only to discover the leftovers are all gone – and just then your 15-year-old walks in and says, “Mom, don’t stress – I grabbed a burger at McDonald’s.”
If you’re concerned that your child has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after eating ultra-processed foods, you may have legal options. Contact us for a free, confidential consultation to discuss your potential case.
“Now, a new study by researchers at University College London in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with other experts, provides additional evidence that people who eat more ultra-processed foods are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.”2
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What Are ULTRA-Processed Foods?
You’ve heard of processed foods? Meet ultra-processed foods – which belong to a class unto themselves – not to be confused with whole, or even processed, foods.
Check out the labels and you’ll find they’re heavily laden with salt, sugar, flavor-enhancing additives, and chemicals. So not only are ultra-processed foods NOT foods and NOT nutritious, routine consumption increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, especially dangerous in children and teens.3
Razzmatazz on UPF packaging might say, “Cocoa Puffs have “great chocolate taste” (processed cocoa powder) or that Lipton Instant Chicken Noodle Soup has “real bits of chicken” (processed chicken powder).
Here are examples of popular UPFs found on store shelves/in fast food chains:
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sweetened and flavored yogurts
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breakfast cereals and bars
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cola, energy, and sports drinks
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pastries, cakes, cookies, and cake mixes
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instant soups
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ice cream and frozen desserts
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packaged breads, hamburger, and hot dog buns
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pre-prepared pizzas, pasta, hamburgers, sausages, chicken nuggets, and fish sticks
What’s the Problem with Ultra-Processed Foods?
Underhanded marketing strategies come straight from the old tobacco playbook (think JUUL and STIIIZY vape products, most recently): ultra-processed foods are designed to be eye-catching and taste yummy so they’re more irresistible, while manufacturers market them as delicious and nutritious but fail to mention how they can destroy your child’s health.
The issue is so serious that scientists think ultra-processed foods should be classified as an addictive substance.6 Yep – addiction to ultra-processed foods is a real thing, similar to an addiction like vaping or cannabis. And the food industry is making bank from it.
The impact of UPFs is greater on children and teens. Why?
T2D in young people is chronic because it affects the way your child’s body processes sugar (glucose) for energy while it’s still growing. Without treatment, T2D causes sugar to accumulate in the bloodstream + can lead to serious long-term consequences.”3
Also this: “Individual hard-to-pronounce additives get lots of attention for being either dangerous or perfectly safe depending on who you talk to, but it’s the complicated sum of what’s being delivered that matters.”4
Parents: None of This Is Your Fault.
There is an entire machine out there devoted to making money for the food industry at the expense of your child’s health. The odds are stacked against you.
“A higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods among school-aged youths than preschool children (aged 2-5 years) may reflect increased marketing,”5
Parents, we don’t want you wasting time beating yourself up for letting your kids eat foods that infiltrate our world with deceptive hype. Yep, UPFs are fast, easy, cheap, and lip-smacking. After all, they were made that way, plus shopping and cooking a fresh meal from scratch every single day is super unrealistic when you’re trying to spin a dozen plates at once.
We so get it because we are you – spinning a dozen plates at once. Many of us are raising children or teens too. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time and energy in a day to prioritize the excellence of what goes in your kid’s mouth when they’re starving and some of your plates are crashing.
Is There An Ultra-Processed Foods Lawsuit?
Yes. The first-of-its-kind UPF lawsuit was filed in December 2024, accusing major food companies of intentionally developing and marketing high-calorie, nutritionally empty ultra-processed food options that are habit-forming to children + teens (fast, easy, tasty, cheap, popular) but doused with chemical flavors so they’re harder to resist and inhospitable to health.7
Some of the companies involved include:
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Kraft Heinz
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Mondelez
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Coca-Cola
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Conagra
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Post Holdings
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PepsiCo
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General Mills
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Nestle’s (US)
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WK Kellogg
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Mars
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Kellanova
What Can You Do Now?
Selling UPFs as healthy is wrong in so many different ways. We want to help.
Our reason for being, for almost 10 years now, is to 1/ help you steer clear of the Big Bads (corporations and entities) + their dangerous products + immoral ethics + misleading advertising. But 2/ if we’re too late and you’ve already been negatively affected, we want to help you challenge wrongdoing and seek justice in a civil court of law.
And we have an established history of helping thousands of teens and families dealing with JUUL addiction and serious side efforts from vaping STIIIZY cannabis.
For this, you won’t pay your lawyers anything upfront or out-of-pocket (or at all) unless they win your case. This is called “contingency,” and it puts all the financial risk on your lawyers. P.S. We only partner with ultra-processed food lawyers that work on contingency.
As for us? For our many services, we charge you nothing. First and most importantly, we will want to know how you’re holding up. If you’re confused and don’t know who you can turn to, we’ll be with you every step of the way.
We are women helping women. Many of us are raising kids who load up on UPFs too, so we’re approaching this crisis from personal experience.
Helping you be empowered is why we do what we do. It’s really that simple. We’ve already helped thousands of women (men + families) whose testimonies agree.
“Joining the lawsuit helped me to find my voice and become a voice for others. The day I received my award letter was the first time that I felt like I truly mattered, and that someone thought that what happened to me was actually worth something. I was proud that my story helped create change that would protect future children. And for me, that was worth more than any financial settlement could ever give me.”
– Survivor Story
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Sources
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Sara Berg, MS, “What doctors wish patients knew about ultraprocessed foods,” American Medical Association, November 8, 2024.
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Unnamed, “Replacing ultra-processed foods in diet may reduce type 2 diabetes risk,” University College London, September 16, 2024.
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Unnamed, “Type 2 diabetes in children,” Mayo Clinic, November 8, 2023.
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Zhangling Chen, et al., “Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohort Studies,” NIH/National Library of Medicine/PubMed, February 28, 2023..
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Unnamed, “How Ultra-Processed Foods Get Us Hooked – and How to Resist,” FoodPrint, May 3, 2021.
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Vladimir Hedrih, “Scientists Propose that Ultra-Processed Foods Be Classified As Addictive Substances,” Center for Nutritional Psychology, November 6, 2023.
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Natalie G. Villianou, et al., “Ultra-Processed Foods and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: What Is the Evidence So Far?,” Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Biomolecules, 2025.
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