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Does Drinking Soda Really Age Your Cells?

Slate.com 10/28/2014

“… Here’s the latest scary fact about your health, fresh on your Facebook feeds and in the morning paper: Drinking soda ages you as much as smoking cigarettes, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Other versions of the story warned that soft-drink addicts are slowly killing themselves with added sugar and that a 20-ounce-a-day habit has been shown to trim half a decade from your life. …”

Read the entire article: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/10/soda_ages_cells_as_much_as_cigarettes_debunking_telomere_studies_of_health.html