Junk food, candy and red meat can lead to an early grave, study finds

A recent study has found how ultra-processed foods and red meat impact human health and longevity.

Junk food and sweets as well as red meat can help you to an early grave, according to a new study on nutrition.

"Our study addresses the question of what can make a vegetarian diet healthy or unhealthy," Fraser says."It seems that the proportion of ultra-processed foods in someone's diet is actually more important with respect to mortality than the proportion of animal-derived foods they eat, the exception being red meat."

The first one was the proportion of the diet composed of ultra-processed foods as opposed to less processed foods,Seven LLU researchers gathered data from an observational prospective cohort study in North America, recruited from Seventh-day Adventist churches, comprising of 77,437 female and male participants.

They adjusted their statistical model to focus on ultra-processed food intake irrespective of other factors like animal-food consumption or age. In doing so, Fraser and co-authors found that people who obtained half of their total calories from ultra-processed foods faced a 14 percent increase in mortality compared to people who received only 12.5 percent of their total calories from ultra-processed foods.

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