Study links ultraprocessed foods to chronic insomnia risk

A team at Sorbonne Paris Nord University has found that among nearly 38,600 French adults, those who ate more ultraprocessed foods were more likely to suffer from chronic insomnia — adding disrupted sleep to a growing catalogue of harms linked to modern industrial diets. The finding does not yet establish cause, only pattern, but it extends a familiar question: what does it mean to nourish a body in an age when so much of what we eat has been engineered rather than grown? The researchers call for deeper inquiry, acknowledging that the path between what we consume and how we rest remains, for n