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11/03/2007: "Cut sugar from your life and live 15 years longer"

Restricting the simple sugar glucose from your diet, while avoiding vitamin supplements, may extend your lifespan, according to German researchers.

When the researchers used a chemical to block worms’ ability to process glucose, their lifespan was extended by up to 25 percent, which is equal to 15 human years.

When the worms were unable to use glucose for energy, they increased energy power from other cells -- a process that generated more free radicals than normal. In response, the worms generated enzymes that fought the free radicals and strengthened their long-term protection against the damaging molecules.

[ Junk food isn't poison, but it takes up space and time that better things could have used. Human parasites are junk food. They're easy to take, but bad for you. ]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/18/cut-sugar-and-supplements-and-live-15-years-longer.aspx