Researchers looked at how three different healthy eating measures affected an “epigenetic clock”, a biochemical test that can approximate health and lifespan. They found that the better people ate, the younger their cells looked. Even when people ate healthy diets, each gram of added sugar they consumed was associated with an increase in their epigenetic age.
Dorothy Chiu, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCSF Osher Centre for Integrative Health and first author of the study, said, “The diets we examined align with existing recommendations for preventing disease and promoting health, and they highlight the potency of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients in particular.
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