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Processed Foods Add To Heart Attack, Stroke Risk

The Wall Street Journal

March 18, 2026

People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who eat about one serving a day, according to a new study.

- BY ANDREA PETERSEN

The risks rose with each additional serving a person ate, according to the study published Tuesday in JACC: Advances, a journal of the American College of Cardiology.

This story is from the March 18, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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