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    The Health Risks of Ultra-Processed Foods and Your Hearing

    We all know that we have to pay certain health trade-offs for eating ultra-processed foods, be that high blood pressure or unhealthy weight increases. But, we’re betting you’ve never considered how that burger you ate for dinner will impact your hearing. And why should you, when your stomach and your ears are at least seemingly unrelated parts of the body? Or, are they? While we’re not here to say that one pizza will leave you deaf forevermore, there is a growing body of evidence that a consistently poor diet can have a gradual but undeniable impact on hearing health. In other words, eat too many pizzas, and there’s every chance…