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Eating This Type of Food Is Now Tied to Premature Aging

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Ultra-processed foods — however delicious we may find them — have already been linked to a myriad of health problems, from stroke to cancer to dementia. Here’s a new one. Eating a lot of highly processed foods is now associated with a “significant acceleration” of biological aging — a measure of age based on the condition of your body’s cells rather than the length of time you’ve been alive.

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