Love Pizza And Burger? Research Finds Link Between Ultra-Processed Food And Early Death

Ultra-processed foods have many added ingredients like sugar, salt, fat, and artificial colours or preservatives. They are made from substances extracted from foods: fats, starches, added sugars and hydrogenated fats.

Putting a burger in your mouth is a temporarily-gratifying experience that makes your taste buds supremely happy. But, in the long run, it can cause a great deal of irreversible harm to the body. That processed foods are damaging for health is a known fact.

New research has found that eating ultra-processed foods can cut-short a person’s life and predispose them to an early death. A CNN report states that according to a review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people, consumption of ultra-processed foods ‘raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions’.

Senior author Wolfgang Marx, a senior research fellow at the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, was quoted as telling the outlet: “We found consistent evidence linking higher intakes of ultra-processed foods with over 70 per cent of the 45 different health outcomes we assessed.”