I think it’s common knowledge that smoking is bad for you. It harms organs like your lungs, heart, kidneys and bladder, it makes your skin wrinkle and look unhealthy; just all around bad stuff. Smoking cigarettes ages you faster.
But according to a new study published in the American Journal Of Public Health, drinking just one 20-ounce sugary soda drink a day may age you just as quickly as smoking cigarettes. This study involved 5,309 American adults between the ages of 20 and 65 with no history of diabetes are cardiovascular disease and studied them between 1999 and 2002.
For the people involved in this study, the more soda you drink, the shorter their telomeres become over time. Telomeres are the protective caps on DNA at the ends of chromosomes in cells...
