So much for aging like fine wine.
yet another study Link Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) Such as packaged snacks, sugary drinks, mass-produced breads, fruit yogurts, some breakfast cereals and meat substitutes For accelerated biological aging.
biological age – The age of our cells and tissues – is influenced by genetics and lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise.
Middle-aged and elderly Italian study participants who got more than 14% of their daily calories from UPF seemed biologically older than their chronological age, which is the number of years they lived. .
UPF has long earned a bad reputation To be rich in calories, sugar, fat and salt.
“In addition to being nutritionally inadequate, being rich in sugars, salt and saturated or trans fats, [UPFs] undergo intensive industrial processing that actually alters their food matrix, resulting in the loss of nutrients and fiber, says nutritional epidemiologist and co-author of the study Marialaura Bonasio explained,
“This may have important consequences for a range of physiological functions, including [sugar] Structure and functionality of metabolism and gut microbiota,” Bonasio explains about the balance of bacteria, viruses and fungi in our digestive tract. “Too, [UPFs] are often wrapped plastic packagingThus it becomes a vehicle for toxic substances for the body.
Bonacio’s team instructed 22,500 study participants to fill out a food questionnaire and they measured 36 biomarkers in their blood to calculate their biological age.
The findings were published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The results have come recently University of California, San Francisco study It found that excess sugar accelerates biological aging, even when it is part of an otherwise healthy diet.
High amounts of sugar in the blood can damage cells, causing… chronic inflammationWhich is linked to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease and various types of cancer.
Recent studies have shown that UPF covers about 60% of the typical American’s daily calorie intake.
