Soft drinks may quench your thirst and provide an energy boost. They also can do a lot of damage — beyond expanding your waistline. Drinking sweetened sodas daily can speed how fast the body’s cells age, a new study indicates.
Regularly downing sugary soft drinks can boost the risk of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and liver disease. These long-lasting conditions have no cure. Today, three-fourths of all American healthcare dollars go to manage such ailments. What researchers hadn’t worked out was why overindulging in sugary drinks leads to such diseases.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, or UCSF, wondered if the link might lie with a marker of cellular aging. It’s called the telomere. Telomeres are the repeated sequences of DNA that cap the ends of our chromosomes. Like the plastic tips that keep shoelaces from fraying, telomeres protect our DNA from damage, explains UCSF’s Cindy Leung. As an epidemiologist, she probes the links between diet and health.
Soft drinks may quench your thirst and provide an energy boost. They also can do a lot of damage — beyond expanding your waistline. Drinking sweetened sodas daily can speed how fast the body’s cells age, a new study indicates.Regularly downing sugary soft drinks can boost the risk of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and liver disease. These long-lasting conditions have no cure. Today, three-fourths of all American healthcare dollars go to manage such ailments. What researchers hadn’t worked out was why overindulging in sugary drinks leads to such diseases.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, or UCSF, wondered if the link might lie with a marker of cellular aging. It’s called the telomere. Telomeres are the repeated sequences of DNA that cap the ends of our chromosomes. Like the plastic tips that keep shoelaces from fraying, telomeres protect our DNA from damage, explains UCSF’s Cindy Leung. As an epidemiologist, she probes the links between diet and health.
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