Your Food May Be Aging You

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Ultra-processed foods, UPFs, yes those sugary drinks, colorful cereals, cookies, instant noodles, and cakes, pound on your body’s cells to the extent that it makes your body older than your actual chronologic age. Nutritionists from Australia’s Monash University studied 16,055 subjects 20 to 79 years of age. Tabulating their biological age markers and diet, they found that every 10% increase in ultra processed food drove a 2 month increase in cellular aging.

Those eating the most UPFs had bodies a year older than their chronological ages.

You won’t wonder why when you read the long list of unnatural ingredients in these products. The emulsifiers, hydrogenated oils, and unmentionable preservatives drown out any real nutrients that manage to find their way into the packaging.

Aging isn’t the only negative triggered by ultraprocessed foods. The Harvard Nurses Health and Health Professionals Studies, analyzing some 3.6 million subjects, showed that high intake of ultra processed foods boosted your risk of coronary heart disease, often a heart attack, by 16%.

Ultra-processed foods play a huge role in our current obesity epidemic. They also deposit fat where you least want it. UC-San Francisco radiologists now report an MR imaging study that links these foods to increased fat deposition in thigh muscles. Ugly indeed.

These ultra-processed goodies are tasty and tantalizing. If you want to age more gracefully and avoid life-threatening illness, though, you should only ingest them as treats and, even then, once in a blue moon.

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/53/12/afae268/7918804

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X24001868

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241204145421.htm

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