Fizzy drinks and ice cream increase the risk of lung cancer by 41 per cent.

A major new study has revealed that those who consume the most ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are a lot more likely to get the disease.

An international team of experts have revealed that junk food is particularly bad for non-small cell lung cancer and the aggressive small cell type.

The research tracked the diets and health of over 100,000 adults in the US over a period over 12 years and found that 1,706 people went on to develop lung cancer.

Those who gorged on UPFs were 41 per cent more likely to get lung cancer but the experts warned that the findings do not prove that UPFs cause the disease.

Professor Sam Hare, a consultant chest radiologist at the Royal Free London NHS Trust, says that additional work is n

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