This study question your believe Press enter or click to view image in full size public domain photo of old man from pxhere.com I was up at like 1am on a Tuesday doing that thing where you click a citation inside a paper and it takes you to another paper and then you click another citation and suddenly it’s been two hours and you’re seventeen tabs deep into something you didn’t plan to care about. And I landed on this BMJ review from early 2024 and almost didn’t open it because the title was the usual dry academic language about ultra-processed food and health outcomes, and I’d been hearing the phrase ultra-processed for years by that point and had kind of mentally filed it next to all the other nutrition warnings I half absorbed and then ignored while eating the exact thing I was being warned about. Then I saw the number. The search identified 45 unique pooled analyses covering 9,888,373 participants. Nearly 10 million people. Across multiple countries.…