The Independent is reporting that sodium benzoate does deadly damage to DNA. Though the article says it’s in a “few” soft drinks, check what you’re drinking. It probably has it!
A molecular biologist interviewed by the Independent stated: “These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it: they knock it out altogether.
“The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it – as happens in a number if diseased states – then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA – Parkinson’s and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing.”
danakeith on May 28th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Thanks a lot to this post, now I have knowledge in watching out what you take.. I usually have soft drinks after meal most of the day, I didn’t know that some of it may cause damages in DNA.
Watch out!
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