A study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, has identified a link between dietary patterns low in added sugar and a younger biological age at the cellular level, according to a report on Integrative Practitioner.
The cross-sectional study examined food records from 342 Black and white women with a mean age of 39 years from Northern California, comparing their diets to epigenetic clock measures obtained from saliva samples. Senior co-author Elissa Epel, PhD, a professor in UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, said high levels of added sugar are known to worsen metabolic health and that accelerated epigenetic aging may underlie this relationship.
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