BILLIONS of bottles sold every day around the world. And yet… sugary sodas aren’t just bad for our love handles. A new study published in the ‘American Journal Of Public Health reveals that they also cause us to age prematurely.
The researchers questioned 5,309 consumers, from the most to the least regular. They then took a drop of blood to examine their chromosomes and… they noticed that the DNA of Coca-Cola addicts (and other sodas) showed much earlier aging than the others!
Specifically, they noticed that the length of telomeres – those ends of chromosomes that shorten with age – were much shorter in consumers of sugary soft drinks. However, the longer they are, the better the longevity and health, the shorter they are, the greater the risk of developing stress, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.
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Thus, drinking 250 ml of soda daily (a can of Coke =320 ml) corresponds to a premature aging of almost 2 years. Do we double? Sweet bubble addicts, tremble:drinking half a liter of soda a day corresponds to premature aging of around… 4 and a half years! This is an aging of telomeres comparable, to a certain extent, to that observed in smokers, notes the study.
However, in the case of sodas, it is the excessive and rapid ingestion of sugar that would be incriminated. Its excess causes oxidative stress, responsible for the increase in free radicals. Produced in large quantities, these damage the cells.
While telomere length naturally decreases with age, previous research by Dr. Ornish (food guru Bill Clinton) has already shown that you can increase telomere length by 10% over 5 years, provided you insist on a healthy diet - without soda, or cigarettes, with exercise and "stress management" (yoga, mediation etc.).
Why don't we write the next book (to get rich):"Rejuvenate:The Pro-Telomere Method". I leave you, I have work.
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