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Eating a certain type of food could increase the risk of getting a deadly cancer at a younger age, researchers say.

A new study at Mass General Brigham has linked higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods — which largely include ready-to-eat foods with high levels of sugar, salt, saturated fat and food additives — to higher rates of precursors of early-onset colorectal cancer .

The researchers analyzed more than two decades of data on the diets and endoscopy results of almost 30,000 women born between 1947 and 1964, according to a press release.

EVEN LOW-CALORIE PROCESSED FOOD CAUSES WEIGHT GAIN, TESTOSTERONE LOSS IN MEN, STUDY SUGGESTS

All the women — who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study II — underwent at least two lower endo

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