In the biggest analysis of evidence to date involving 10million people, researchers found those eating the most had between a 40 and 66 per cent increased risk of dying from heart disease.
Professor Tim Spector called for compulsory warning labels for food packaging as he said Brits diet of poor quality food, is making them overeat and is fuelling diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.
Do ultra-processed foods lead to poor health outcomes by definition? A ‘hyper-literal’ focus on definitions is not the point, suggest Henry Dimbleby and Chris van Tulleken: ‘ultra-processed food’ as a category encapsulates the toll that an industry dominated by industrially-produced food has taken.