Eating Highly Processed Foods Linked to a Risk of Earlier Death

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"A group of researchers studied the food and health habits of 44,000 men and women in France, all 57 and over, for seven years, and tracked how much of their diet was made up of these “ultra-processed” foods. During that span, 602 of the study participants died; 219 from cancer and 34 from cardiovascular diseases. The researchers said that for every 10 percent increase in consumption of ultra-processed foods, the participants had a 14 percent increase in their chance of death, even after adjusting for smoking, obesity and other environmental factors..."