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Soda Pop Damages Your Cells' Telomeres
BarbaraHudson writes Those free soft drinks at your last start-up may come with a huge hidden price tag. The Toronto Sun reports that researchers at the University of California — San Francisco found study participants who drank pop daily had shorter telomeres — the protective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes in cells — in white blood cells. Short telomeres have been associated with chronic aging diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer. The researchers calculated daily consumption of a 20-ounce pop is associated with 4.6 years of additional biological aging. The effect on telomere length is comparable to that of smoking, they said. "This finding held regardless of age, race, income and education level," researcher Elissa Epel said in a press release.
And here's another study that's not from Yale and doesn't use a red herring to confuse people.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
It has been suggested that increased fructose intake is associated with obesity. We hypothesized that chronic fructose consumption causes leptin resistance, which subsequently may promote the development of obesity in response to a high-fat diet.
What gives you two away as shills is that you use strong, unscientific words. There's no, "should," "could," "may," etc, but talk of what is and isn't. Then you both misrepresent the research by pretending that you're citing the one and only peer-reviewed source. This is all capped off with the classic tactic of misrepresenting the body of evidence that disagrees with you. Both of you could be hired social media climate change denialism shills just as easily. Learn some new tricks.
If you know how to use PubMed, then you can't play up ignorance as an excuse. Go tell your bosses at Coca-Cola or wherever that we're not buying it. But tell them not to worry, because we'll all slowly kill ourselves with their delicious, delicious products anyway.
Glucose should just be outlawed along with its insanely toxic by-product, glucose-6-phosphate.
Aside from its other effects, that stuff even dehydrogenates into NADPH. Is there really any reason we even allow these chemicals into our body?