Consuming fruit and a cup of coffee a day can halve risk of unhealthy cell ageing, study suggests


in reply to xep

It seems this story is based on an unpublished paper abstract presented at European Congress on Obesity 2026 titled "Higher Dietary Polyphenol Intake Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Short Telomeres: Evidence from the SUN Cohort Study".

You can see it in the conference program.

eco2026.org/assets/docs/progra…

And here is another reference.

sciencemediacentre.org/expert-…

in reply to godsammitdam

They were funded by one and found success in another.

They would have made sense if one worked and they were funded by the same industry

Would have made sense if they simply found success in their results and published them

They said that it works when combining coffee and fruit. Which one paid for it? Both would have told the other industry to pay for the study. It's definitely only coffee or "fruit".

One was actually meaningful. Guessing fruit was actually beneficial and coffee paid the bill but it's definitely a red flag to include both in the finding. Either coffee is good and fruit is meaningless, or the other way around.

Tbh, "fruit" is such a large category that there's no way they studied every fruit. They "studied coffee" and added "fruit" so they could post a benefit. I love coffee but this study is bullshit.

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in reply to 4grams

Nothing is 100% good or 100% bad. Even oxygen has problems that are caused in the body.

Coffee, like many things, can cause some health issues, but also some health benefits.

The problem is that the headlines only talk about this specific effect studied. When you get down the details, it's a lot less clear cut then "drink coffee = live longer" or "drink coffee = die younger"

in reply to Victor

Complex answers there due to bioavailability, combinations, and palatability. Cow liver has lots of vitamin A but it is liver. Carrots have a lot of A if you eat good fats with them. Sea Buckthorn has more than you need but you also get v.C and lots of other nutrients and it's a candy.

Also as primates we are built for fruit.

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in reply to SreudianFlip

You have a strange opposition to fruit. Go prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit and come back with the evidence.


LCHF. My mother's been on it for over a decade, never felt better, she says. Lots of ailments she had went away as well.

I'm not opposed to fruit, there's stuff in fruit we need. I'm just saying they're probably not the best source of those things because it comes with the cost of extra stuff we don't need, like sugars and fiber.

You can probably get more of those antioxidants and vitamins in berries rather than fruit, going by the colloquial definition of "fruit".

I'm also not in LCHF, but I never eat fruit and I'm healthy af. Only on special occasions, like maybe a melon, or a mango or something. Never regularly.

I have a slight iron deficiency but that's from birth and fruit won't help me there, I imagine.

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in reply to SreudianFlip

Not including berries in "fruit" is weird AF.


I said in the traditional definition. Fruit includes berries as well in the scientific definition, yes.

Was everyone using the scientific definition all along? Kind of unusual but I'll take it.

Anecdotal evidence


Excuse me but it doesn't matter in this case based on what you asked me.

You asked, that I prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit, which would imply that your hypothesis is that you can't. So I give you two examples that disprove the hypothesis, and you reject them? That's not the scientific method, sir.

All that aside, I'm glad you believe me, because I have no reason to lie of course.

Vegetables are essential, and I eat those. Had I not eaten them, I think we wouldn't be having this discussion. 😅 I'd be eating a lot of supplements or be dead or dying.

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