Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailFizzy drinks and highly processed food could cause cancer, a study suggests. It found that a 10% increase in eating ultra-processed food such as ready meals was linked with a 12% higher risk of getting the disease. The rocketing consumption of packaged baked goods, sugary cereals, ready meals, reconstituted meat products and pop “may drive an increasing burden of cancer in the next decades”, scientists say. Researchers called for extra tax on highly processed products. "Huge quantities of everyday processed food have excessive levels of sugar, fat and salt.”A few previous investigations have linked highly processed foods to obesity, raised blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Source: Daily Mirror February 14, 2018 23:30 UTC