Julian Finney/Getty Images- A large study of more than 100,000 French adults revealed a startling link: People who consume more processed food are much more likely to develop all kinds of cancers.
- Most of the ultra-processed products were foods and beverages with a lot of sugar.
- The finding held true for every category of adults in the study: men and women, exercisers and couch potatoes, younger and older people, smokers and non-smokers.
If scientists told you that there's one lifestyle factor that might best predict whether you get cancer, you'd want to know, right?
Researchers in France may have found just that. After studying more than 100,000 adults for years, their results showed that eating processed food is more closely linked with cancer risk than one's age, sex, body mass index, height, level of physical activity, smoking and drinking habits, calories consumed, or family history.
This harmful "ultra-processed" food, as the researchers called it, may include packaged sweet pastries and muffins, chips, candy, sodas, frozen dinners like meatballs and fish sticks, instant ramen noodles, sugary cereals, and pretty much anything else you can imagine that's cheap and comes in a ready-to-go packet or container at the store.
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