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Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, etc. cause damage to DNA

by Maireid Sullivan | July 20, 2007 at 04:14 pm

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This very important health reports deserves to be widely read. Do You Care About Your DNA? By Louise McCoy –
Epoch Times New York Staff

Research from Sheffield University, U.K., into a common food and
drink preservative suggests that it can damage DNA. Sodium benzoate, a
mold inhibiter commonly found in Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, other soft
drinks, pickles, and sauces, is the culprit.

Peter Piper, professor of molecular biology and biotechnology,
who has been working on sodium benzoate since 1999, tested sodium
benzoate on living yeast cells. He was alarmed to find that it damaged
their mitochondria's DNA.

Concerned, Piper made his research public, telling British newspaper, The Independent, on Sunday, May 27: "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 consume the oxygen to give you energy, and if you damage it—as happens in a number of 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 neurodegenerative diseases, but above all, the whole process of aging."

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