'The Independent' is reporting some spooky new information about sodas. I knew that had a ton of sugar and that the average american eats fifteen POUNDS of suger each year in sodas but I didn't know that sodas cause cell damage. The problem, it seems, is a common preservative known as E211...aka 'sodium benzoate'. In combination with Vitamin C, also found in many soft drinks, it can turn into benzene which is a known carcinogen.
Professor Peter Piper of Sheffield University claims that sodium benzoate by itself can damage and inactivate vital parts of DNA in a cell's mitochondria. "The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number of diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of aging."
I want to make this clear. There is NOT a link to autism but I have this site to provide a place for people concerned about neurobiological disorders to see new articles on the subject.
It's got me off the sodas:)
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