SODA SPEEDS UP AGING

(October, 2014) Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have announced the findings of a study that they say shows that drinking soda pop speeds up aging, and therefore will kill you. Dr. Elissa Epel worked on the study for 5 years. Epel’s team discovered that in people who drank more sugar-sweetened beverages, the ends of their chromosomes, known as telomeres, were shorter. The shorter the telomere, the less a cell can regenerate, thus aging the body, and raising the risk of disease and early death. “This finding is alarming because it suggest that soda may be aging us, in ways we are not even aware of,” said Dr. Epel. Researchers found no link in cell aging, however, when drinking diet sodas and fruit juices.
* According to this, for the last 50 years, everybody should have been dying sooner.
* Maybe potato chips reverse the effects?
* The takeaway here is to stick with the safe beverages, beer and whiskey.
* Wait, what did you think? That drinking soda pop would make you live longer?
* Don’t worry about cell regeneration. The adult diabetes will get you way before that.