How cynical food giants are cooking up new brownies and chicken sticks to lure back millions using weight-loss jabs - and how to fight back: Special report by TOM LEONARD

With a combative new US health secretary declaring war on junk food, additives and such sugary staples of American life as corn syrup, you might forgive the corporate food giants if they've lost a little appetite. With combative new US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, declaring war on junk food, you might forgive the corporate food giants if they've lost a little appetite No wonder. In the US – for now the frontline of this struggle with the pharma firms that make these drugs – a few food giants have already brought out products designed to appeal to GLP-1 users. An investigation by the New York Times has revealed how Mattson, a major California 'food innovation' company which creates lines for fast food giants such as McDonald's and PepsiCo, is developing products that have been 'tweaked' to appeal to users of weight-loss drugs. Professor Naveed Sattar, a professor of cardiometabolic medicine at Glasgow University, told the Mail he wasn't remotely surprised that US food companies were trying to manufacture convenience food that undermines the defences of weight-loss drugs.