The study is published: Beware, these foods increase the chances of you getting cancer

Processed foods such as breakfast cereals, frozen pizzas or other convenience foods, and carbonated beverages can increase your risk of cancer. According to researchers, the risk increases more for the occurrence of ovarian or brain cancer.

Many of the products we consume undergo some form of processing, such as cheese, salted peanut butter, and pastry sauces, but "ultra-processed" foods have more unnatural ingredients in their composition.

This includes artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners and preservatives. Researchers at Imperial College London's School of Public Health followed the diets of nearly 200,000 middle-aged adults over a 10-year period in Great Britain.

They concluded that the consumption of food products that are highly processed is associated with an increased risk of cancer in general and specifically ovarian and brain cancer. Likewise, the risk of dying from cancer increased from the consumption of these products.

Of the 197,426 individuals who participated in the study, approximately 15,921 of them were diagnosed with cancer and 4,009 cancer-related deaths were also recorded.