Soda causes our cells to age as much as smoking does, study finds

FoxNews ^ | October 21, 2014

[SMGFan]

Drink a 20-ounce soda daily, and you may be causing your cells to age as much as they would if you smoked, a study suggests. Researchers investigated DNA from 5,309 adults, focusing on telomeres, the caps on the ends of our cells' chromosomes, Time reports.

[SMGFan]

I don't buy this.

[cripplecreek]

I’m apparently long dead.

[Bettyprob]

A convenient study, considering the push against soda from various leftist politicians across the country.

[workerbee]

Diet Coke is my coffee - has been for years.

I’m probably a dead woman walking.

[Squantos]

Nah ....diet soda doesn’t damage the cells according to the report....sugar soda only allegedly ....but isn’t most regular soda sweetened with corn syrup these days ?

[IncPen]

Somewhere in here I smell Bloomberg...

[PROCON]

[TheConservativeParty]

LOL

But you look marvelous!

[uncitizen]

Ooh here we go...

[Rome2000]

I never drank anything other than seltzer and water.

Who knows?

[MeshugeMikey]

the vast majority of the current array of soft drinks are indeed sweetened with fructose corn “sugar” ..

by the way ...my cells are older than I am

[driftdiver]

Funny how all this stuff is coming out suddenly.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Living causes your cells to age so I think it’s high time we banned living.

[TaMoDee]

Nope, the odor is Moochelle.

[gop4lyf]

I don’t care. You have to die from something, so you might as well die happy. I refuse to give up my Big Red!

[Bronzy]

Me too. I've been a smoker and a stopper and again a smoker. Doc says, “Bronzy don't cha feel better not smoking? I say to doc, “No, not yet because I was told smoking causes high BP. I still have high BP so why did I stop smoking doc”?

[Right Brother]

Funny how studies never show the negative aspects of gay sex, smoking pot, vegan diets or any other predominately liberal lifestyle component.

[Secret Agent Man]

if it does shorten telomere length then it is a factor in shortening lifespan.

the longer you can keep telomeres the better.

[Parley Baer]

Did Bloomburg pay for this study?

[Rome2000]

Somebody told me that anything carbonated, even seltzer, was harmful.

This would seem to contradict that.