Can drinking soda make you age faster?
Oct-23-2014

Soft drinks are a $61 billion a year business in the U.S. But could drinking soda shorten your life?

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health this week says the answer might just be yes.

The first-of-its-kind study looked at whether America's thirst for soda speeds up how the body's cells age. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, used a sample of 5,300 healthy adults.

"We think we can get away with drinking lots of soda as long as we are not gaining weight," said Elissa Epel, who worked on the study for five years. "But this suggests that there is an invisible pathway that leads to accelerated aging, regardless of weight."

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, aging the body and raising the risk of disease and early death.

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