Madrid-Sana
A recent medical study revealed that inexpensive and easy-to-use highly converted industrial foods such as some prepared dishes, soft drinks, burgers and biscuits lead to the acceleration of biological aging of their major consumers.
This study, prepared by researchers from the University of Navarra in Spain and published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was based on measuring one of the biological indicators of aging, which is the length of the genetic elements known as telomere in 886 people in Spain over the age of fifty-five while monitoring their daily consumption of heavily transformed foods. It was concluded that a poor diet may accelerate cell aging.
And telomeres are protective structures that maintain the stability and integrity of the genetic balance, including the DNA necessary for the functioning of every cell in the body, and the length of these telomeres decreases with age because the cell loses part of its limb every time it divides.
The risk of these telomeres to be short is almost doubled among the major consumers of these foods, who eat more than 3 meals or dishes per day, and this phenomenon recurs so that it ultimately leads to the aging of cells that stop dividing and work normally.
Previous research has linked these highly converted foods with high fat, sweetness and saltiness to diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and multiple types of cancer.