Consuming fruit and a cup of coffee a day can halve risk of unhealthy cell ageing, study suggests
Consuming fruit and a cup of coffee a day can halve risk of unhealthy cell ageing, study suggests
Eating diet rich in polyphenols can lower likelihood of shorter DNA endings linked to age-related diseasesAnna Bawden (the Guardian)
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in reply to xep • • •It seems this story is based on an unpublished paper abstract presented at European Congress on Obesity 2026 titled "Higher Dietary Polyphenol Intake Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Short Telomeres: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-…
expert reaction to a European Congress on Obesity unpublished conference abstract on association between higher dietary polyphenol intake and lower risk of short telomeres | Science Media Centre
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in reply to Valuy • • •But I drink black tea, n bunch of fruits.
Is green tea any good??
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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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Fuck it, life is better with coffee, and fruit.
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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"
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in reply to SreudianFlip • • •More than what's in meat and vegetables? 🤔
It's there any fruit with more vitamins and such things than you can find in a corresponding vegetable or meat?
SreudianFlip
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 • • •Complex indeed.
Could you explain a bit more about what being "built for fruit" means? Built more for fruit than other things or just built to "handle" it?
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in reply to Victor • • •"Nutrition" comes in many forms; I am fine with high density antioxidants and vitamins (more dense in some fruits than most if not all veg and meat) that are candy.
You have a strange opposition to fruit. Go prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit and come back with the evidence.
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in reply to SreudianFlip • • •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 Victor • • •Not including berries in "fruit" is weird AF.
Saying we don't need fibre is just deeply misinformed.
Anecdotal evidence, universalized, is often just rationalization. I believe you about your experience. I don’t think you can generalize accurately withit.
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in reply to SreudianFlip • • •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.
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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in reply to Valuy • • •Too bad coffee tastes like trash to this guy.
Guess I'll die.
I do often eat some fruit, though.
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