Cold Drinks Threat to DNA

Latest research by a British scientist shows that a preservative used in cold drinks can switch off vital parts of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), causing serious damage to cells particularly in children.

Sodium benzoate or E211 has been used as a preservative for decades by the 74 billion pound global carbonated drinks industry. It is used to kill yeast, bacteria, and fungi in soft drinks, jam, fruit juice and salad dressing.

When mixed with vitamin C it forms benzene, a carcinogenic substance. The preservative is also found naturally in cranberries, prunes, greengages, cinnamon, ripe cloves and apples. Peter Piper, a molecular biology expert at Sheffield University studied the preservative and found it could damage an important part of DNA called mitochondria.

“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,” said Piper.

“The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously,” he said.

“And there is a whole array of diseases now being tied to damage to this part of DNA. Parkinson’s and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing can be caused by the damage,” added Piper.

However, makers of drinks like Coca-Cola, Fanta and Diet Pepsi insisted that experts had rigorously assessed the additive before it had been approved for use.

Coca-Cola said all their ingredients have been approved as safe by the food regulatory authorities in Britain and the European Union (EU), from where they take their guidance.

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Turtle Love

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A few of the Tortoises playing on a giant Tortoise, in Karachi zoo, in Pakistan.

Learning to Do Better

I walk down the street.
There is a hole.
I don’t see it.
I fall in.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes a very long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is still a deep hole.
I pretend not to see it.
I fall in.
I pretend it’s still not my fault.
It takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is still the same deep hole.
I see it.
I fall in anyway.
It’s a habit.
I get out quicker this time.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole.
I see it.
I walk around it.
I don’t fall in.

I walk down a different street.

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Interseting Facts

A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

And the good one ….

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Museum says dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark

Like many modern museums, the newest US tourist attraction includes some awesome exhibits — roaring dinosaurs and a life-sized ship.

The Christian creators of the sprawling museum, unveiled, hope to draw as many as half a million people each year to their state-of-the-art project, which depicts the Bible’s first book, Genesis, as literal truth.

Here exhibits show the Grand Canyon took just days to form during Noah’s flood, dinosaurs coexisted with humans and had a place on Noah’s Ark, and Cain married his sister to people the earth, among other Biblical wonders.

Scientists, secularists and moderate Christians have pledged to protest the museum’s public opening. An airplane trailing a ‘Thou Shalt Not Lie’ banner buzzed overhead during the museum’s opening news conference.

Opponents argue that children who see the exhibits will be confused when they learn in school that the universe is 14 billion years old rather than 6,000. A Gallup poll last year showed almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created by God in their present form within the last 10,000 years.

Via Reuters