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When they say inflammation - which I've read about several times in similar "soft medicine" contexts - do they mean the same inflammation as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation ?

"The five classical signs of inflammation are heat, pain, redness, swelling, and loss of function" -- surely you don't have these when you eat processed food.

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Yes, inflammation is inflammation. That said, the symptoms described in the wiki are more related to acute inflammation, such as swelling after you hit your head on a cabinet or something like that.

Dietarily, they're referring more to chronic inflammation, there's info about it here under "chronic inflammation":

https://www.livescience.com/52344-inflammation.html

They measured a bunch of markers of inflammation. That relies on hypothesis that "chronic inflammatory response" is a cause of at least some negative outcomes related to our diet to be meaningful. That causation is not quite proven.

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