Is Fast Food Child Abuse?: How Ultra-Processed Food Became the New Secondhand Smoke

For most of modern history, parents smoked around their children without thinking twice. The science wasn’t fully understood, the risks weren’t widely accepted, and society saw it as normal. Today, that has changed. This book asks a difficult question: could ultra-processed food and excessive sugar one day be viewed the same way?

Drawing from nutrition science, epidemiology, public health research, and real legal precedents, Is Fast Food Child Abuse? examines the growing body of evidence linking ultra-processed foods to chronic disease, metabolic dysfunction, and long-term health consequences that begin in childhood.

This is not a diet book. It is not an attack on parents. And it is not a call for government intervention in family life. It is a concise, evidence-based investigation into one of the most controversial questions emerging in nutrition and public health today.