Remember how the boss at work used to bring a pack of cigarettes and put it on the table to get everyone smoking? That’s what should be on your mind when the deadly donut box inevitably opens in a meeting room.

It’s estimated that as much as 70% of the US food supply is ultraprocessed.

“Two-thirds of the calories children consume in the US are ultraprocessed, while about 60% of adult diets are ultraprocessed,” Fang Fang Zhang, associate professor and chair of the division of nutrition epidemiology and data science at Tufts University in Boston, told CNN in an earlier interview. Zhang was not involved in the new research.

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The United States has the highest level of ultraprocessed food consumption in the world — nearly 55% of the average American’s diet, according to the study. Researchers estimated reducing the use of those ultraprocessed foods to zero would have prevented over 124,000 deaths in the US in 2017.

It’s a dire warning, under the headline “Every bite of ultraprocessed food will increase your chance of an early death”.

Every bite. Early death.

Do not eat the do nut.

This new science reminds me of the famous 1972 book and 1973 congressional testimony: