Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to 70 Percent of All Major Health Conditions Including Mental Illness

What was said

"70% of the health outcomes that we studied were linked to a higher intake of ultra-processed foods, with particularly strong evidence for death, any cause of death, for cardiometabolic diseases. So heart and diabetes diseases and common mental disorders, depression and anxiety."

An umbrella review published in the British Medical Journal analyzed data from over 10 million people and found 70% of studied health outcomes, including death, heart disease, diabetes, depression, and anxiety, were linked to ultra-processed food consumption. The finding suggests the processing itself, not just nutrients, damages health.