Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking
by Scientist007 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:20PM
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The "joke" points out an important flaw.
It really doesn't though.
Something tells me green-account "Scientist007", that you might not actually be a scientist.
Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking
by lotsofmangos on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:05PM
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No, you have got it all wrong. They must surely be a secret-agent-scientist. That's why nobody understand them. They are using secret-science learned at spy-school that nobody else knows about.
They ran two different models and found across all cohorts (correcting for age, race, BMI, marital status, smoking, history, physical activity levels, and education) that those who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened soda had statistically shorter telomeres -- and that this affect is correlated with the amount of consumption.
> Because of the model-based estimate in this sample of the age-associated rate of telomere shortening of 13.6 base pairs per year, this was equivalent to 1.9 additional years of aging for an 8-ounce serving of sugar-sweetened sodas. For a daily consumption of the current standard 20-ounce serving size for sugar-sweetened sodas, this corresponds to 4.6 additional years of aging.
This is good science, and treating it as less than that to set up a joke is pointless.