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Stripped of the alarmist tone ("no no no," the pleading emoji), the claim — that the foods named raise long-term health risk — is backed by several large cohorts (NutriNet-Santé, UK Biobank, US cohorts) that link a higher share of ultra-processed food in the diet to higher long-term risk, with modest but consistent effect sizes (roughly +10-20% per 10-point rise in UPF share) across countries and populations. This is observational data: it can't say a specific soda or box of sugary cereal "causes" something in any one person. The most rigorous controlled trial to date (Hall 2019) mainly shows these foods push people to eat about 500 extra kcal a day — that overeating mechanism, more than any single additive, is what most solidly explains the link to weight and metabolic health.
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