The Link Between Highly Processed Foods and Brain Health [nytimes.com]
By Sally Wadyka, Illustration: Jess Ebsworth, The New York Times, May 18, 2023 Roughly 60 percent of the calories in the average American diet come from highly processed foods. We’ve known for decades that eating such packaged products — like some breakfast cereals, snack bars, frozen meals and virtually all packaged sweets, among many other things — is linked to unwelcome health outcomes, like an increased risk of diabetes , obesity and even cancer . But more recent studies point to another...