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Does a fast-food/junk-food centric diet speed the aging process?

post #1 of 19
10/9/09 at 3:28pm
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I thought it was obvious, but I cant find any articles online to support the claim.
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post #2 of 19
10/9/09 at 5:54pm
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I thought it was obvious, but I cant find any articles online to support the claim.

Define "speed the aging process". Give you wrinkled skin? Die a pre-mature death?
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post #3 of 19
10/9/09 at 9:48pm
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Well...pretty general I guess. I just notice people that are my age that eat shit-tons of junk food tend to look at least 5 years older than they should once they get to be about 23 or 24. I was just looking to see if there was a connection between youthful appearance and diet. If Google searches prove anything, there is no connection. Im disappointed.
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post #4 of 19
10/10/09 at 9:20am
Perhaps not fast food per se, but the lifestyle that the typical person with a high consumption of fast food indulges in - certainly, yes.
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post #5 of 19
10/10/09 at 9:24am
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Perhaps not fast food per se, but the lifestyle that the typical person with a high consumption of fast food indulges in - certainly, yes.

+1 it's the total package
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post #6 of 19
10/10/09 at 12:26pm
Depending on how much stock you put in free radicals, I think eating fast food would accelerate the aging process to the extent that it is a high calorie diet. I believe the theory goes that the more fuel your body burns, the more free radicals are produced, resulting in more cell damage.
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post #7 of 19
10/10/09 at 1:15pm
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Depending on how much stock you put in free radicals, I think eating fast food would accelerate the aging process to the extent that it is a high calorie diet. I believe the theory goes that the more fuel your body burns, the more free radicals are produced, resulting in more cell damage.

I was thinking free radicals, and also, general lifestyle.
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post #8 of 19
10/10/09 at 1:22pm
There is very little known about the true physiology of the aging process. Studying the aging process on a cellular and biochemical process is a very hot area of research. Determining the effects of very broad processes, such as the make-up of our diet, on the cellular and biochemical processes associated with aging is probably impossible with today's science.

So what do we know about the fast food / junk food "diet?" It is quite high in fat and carbs, and low in a ton of stuff. I think we can say with much better certainty that this "diet" does predispose one to metabolic syndrome and that that certainly leads to poor health and premature death.
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post #9 of 19
10/12/09 at 4:15pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29aging.html
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post #10 of 19
10/13/09 at 6:44pm
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I believe the theory goes that the more fuel your body burns, the more free radicals are produced, resulting in more cell damage.

By that logic, wouldn't athletes age very quickly?
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post #11 of 19
10/14/09 at 6:04am
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By that logic, wouldn't athletes age very quickly?
Old athletes I see in the clinics are quite often in terrible shape - old injuries, damaged joints, etc. What's also interesting is that a significant proportion develop eating habits while training that they they carry over into 'the real world' after they stop training, so put on weight. Anyway, it's not just the quantity of food you eat, but also the quality of food you eat. Many dark green leafy vegetables - which are as rare as rocking horse shit in fast food - come jam-packed with anti-oxidants, which mop up free radicals.
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post #12 of 19
10/14/09 at 6:19am
Depends how your body reacts on different kinds of foods really.
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post #13 of 19
10/14/09 at 3:50pm
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I eat a really good diet but I drink a bit much. I cut out drinking and and have been running a mile every other day and I dropped 3 pounds in a week. Good times.
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post #14 of 19
10/17/09 at 12:23am
then i am sure you know when you drink your liver stops all process of breaking anything down to nutrients until it pushes the alc. out because it recognizes it as poison. If you stop and think about that and how it makes you feel it makes total sense. You also binge eat more when you are drunk.
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post #15 of 19
10/17/09 at 3:41am
Like cancer and heart disease, it seems genetics plays the most significamt role.
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