unhealthy
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After a detailed scientific review, they found that UPFs include many foods that are unhealthy, but others that are not.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Even the national team’s current coach, Ståle Solbakken, displays the classic symptoms of an unhealthy, lifelong exposure to English soccer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
"Code Purple" alerts, denoting air quality considered very unhealthy for everyone, not just at-risk groups, blanketed much of the city as well as the wider region, including neighboring Virginia and Maryland.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
By attaching itself to Arc inside these microscopic vesicles, Tau is able to travel from an unhealthy neuron into a healthy one, where it can continue spreading disease.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
For that matter, he wouldn’t be able to tell a healthy sound from an unhealthy one.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
She said unhealthier options now dominated "our supermarkets, corner shops and fast food outlets".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
"In our study, we classified avocados as a vegetable and did see an increase in vegetable consumption attributed to the avocado intake, but also participants used the avocados to replace some unhealthier options."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024
In addition, late-night eating is typically associated with unhealthier food intake – such as processed snacks – and could cause more fragmented sleep.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2024
Mohiuddin says he’s concerned that overtampering with the pig genome could lead to unhealthier pigs and lower-performing donor kidneys.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
You say, we are likely to grow weaklier, unhealthier.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Kingsley, Charles
Several factors have led to this remarkable change, which has helped turn the U.S. into one of the unhealthiest countries among the world’s advanced economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
Grande added, "There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful. I know personally for me, the body you've been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024
The Bronx has a high rate of premature deaths and ranks as the unhealthiest county in New York.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Football fans have outlandish expectations and if they are not met then their criticisms are vitriolic in the most crudest and unhealthiest manner possible.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2022
They were assigned a dwelling-place in the vilest and unhealthiest part of the city, and their quarter was called Ghetto, from the Hebrew nghedah, a congregation.
From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean
