Are these results a surprise?
This is all nonsense. How can anyone make a blanket statement about such a broad category and relate it to all kinds of illness and death? For that matter, people are so different, how can they generalize about all types of people being affected in the same ways by “processed” food?
Unless you are eating directly from the ground or on the hoof, everything you eat is processed to some degree or other.
We are all basically walking hunks of meat, so I say grab for all the preservatives you can get. They might just keep you healthy.