Health Note - Eating Your Way to Old Age

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health....

3 John 1:2

"People who eat a lot of industrially processed junk food are more likely to exhibit a change in their chromosomes linked to ageing.

Three or more servings of so-called "ultra-processed food" per day doubled the odds that strands of DNA and proteins called telomeres, found on the end of chromosomes, would be shorter compared to people who rarely consumed such foods, scientists reported at the European and International Conference on Obesity.

Short telomeres are a marker of biological ageing at the cellular level, and the study suggests that diet is a factor in driving the cells to age faster.

That reduction in length has long been recognized as a marker of

biological age.
Earlier studies have shown strong correlations between ultra-processed foods and hypertension, obesity, depression, type 2 diabetes, and some forms of cancer.
These conditions are often age-related in so far as they are linked to oxidative stress and inflammation known to influence telomere length."
ScienceAlert