Drinking soda is harmful to health
Sweet soda was able to accelerate the aging of cells
According to the results of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, telomeres – protecting the end sections of chromosomes from sticking together, shortening with each cell division – were shorter in people who regularly consumed large amounts of sugary carbonated drinks.
The length of telomeres serves as a kind of counter of cell divisions: the shorter it is, the more divisions have passed since the birth of the progenitor cell. Thus, the length of these DNA sections is directly related to the biological age of a person and is one of the factors of aging. Previous studies have found a link between telomere shortening and stress, an increased risk of infectious, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and oncological diseases in the elderly, diabetes mellitus and susceptibility to infectious diseases.
In a new study, researchers studied the effect of sweetened beverages on various aspects of cellular aging in 5,309 volunteers aged 20 to 65 years who did not suffer from diabetes or cardiovascular diseases. It was calculated that the daily consumption of approximately 2.5 glasses of sweet soda per day is associated with accelerated shortening of telomeres and an additional increase in biological age by 4.6 years. This effect is comparable to the effect of smoking, and the reverse effect on the length of telomeres corresponds to the effect on the body of physical activity.
"It is important to understand how nutrition factors affect the shortening and lengthening of telomeres. In this study, we found that the consumption of sweetened beverages is associated with accelerated shortening of telomere length, – said the main author of the work Cindy Leung (in a press release UCSF Sugared Soda Consumption, Cell Aging Associated in New Study - VM). These results add new data on the effects of sugary carbonated beverages on the human body, for example, on their role in the development of metabolic syndrome, obesity, type II diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases."
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