Harvard Health Letter
Eating highly processed foods may raise cancer risk
News briefs Prepackaged, processed foods are typically high in fat, salt, and sugar. If that’s not enough to make you put down a cookie or resist a frozen dinner, consider an observational study published online Feb. 14, 2018, by The BMJ. It analyzed dietary questionnaire answers of 105,000 middle-aged men and women in France for five years. Foods were grouped according to degree of processing — that is, the amount of change the