Updated On: 10 December, 2024 03:15 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The significance of our findings is tremendous, as our predictions show that for every 10 per cent increase in total energy intake from ultra-processed food consumption there is a nearly 2 per cent increased risk of mortality and 0.5 per cent risk of chronic disease over two years

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Love to binge on ultra-processed food (UPFs) like chips, biscuits, sausages, burgers, soft drinks, and instant noodles? Beware, these can make you age faster biologically, warned a study.
A person's biological age is a relatively new way of measuring a person's health. It refers to how old a person seems based on various molecular biomarkers.