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.

All the women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study II underwent at least two lower endoscopies before they turned 50.

They completed dietary questionnaires every four years about their ultraprocessed food consumption.

Those who repor

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