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Western diets can accelerate cell aging

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Good article forcing one to focus on "Diabetes" which is the modern gateway disease into everything worse. This diet (majorly burgers, soda, pizza, pastries) is now common across the world leading to a huge increase in diabetes everywhere.

Some relevant links;

1) Sweet Death: How Sugar Is Making Us Sick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2taSMx6394

2) Diabetes Hits Hardest in Poor Countries That Aren't Overweight. Why? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuED1JczbI

"Western diets": How about just say "shitty diets"? Why? A southern European diets isn't a bad as a northern European diet, yet both are "Western" (I don't like that term -- too broad.)

Really Northern europeans (Kiruna) have the best skin in the world according to research, in part because of almost exclusively eating free range reindeer and fish from lakes.

Could the lack of sunshine play a major role? I grew up in Florida and have sisters, they spent time outdoors and I did not. We’re now in our 30s and my skin looks the best.

I don’t have a good diet, but I do avoid the sun and alcohol. I also have an extremely basic skincare routine (exfoliate twice a week, use moisturizer every night).

I don’t doubt diet plays a role but there’s a giant flaming ball outside that gives people radiation burns, if you live closer to the equator your chance of getting radiation burns increase.

Also a role for sauna in parts of N.Europe. It definitely cleans out the gunk.

'Western diet' apparently meaning 'refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets'.

Very generous way to apply the term "diet"

No it isn't. The way that it's being applied is the standard definition.

Diet doesn't mean the same as in the phrase "going on a diet", it just means a common collection of food a people eat.

GP may have that confusion, but in case it's not clear: my point was that that's just 'a bad diet', frankly, it's not what I think of when someone says 'Western diet', it isn't my (British) diet.

I thought it was going to be some kind of discovery about, idk, potatoes and milk and olive oil or something. Or the way it's cooked.

They could just say 'High-sugar diet can accelerate cell aging', there's nothing particularly 'Western' about it, and presumably excess sugar consumption from 'Eastern' foods is just as effective.

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