“Even while feeding on a healthy diet, the flies that had previously eaten a high-sugar diet started to die earlier, and on average had 7% shorter lifespans. This was caused by a change in the programming of the flies’ physiology caused by the sugar-rich diet eaten in early adulthood.”
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Adam J. Dobson, Marina Ezcurra, Charlotte E. Flanagan, Adam C. Summerfield, Matthew D.W. Piper, David Gems, Nazif Alic. Nutritional Programming of Lifespan by FOXO Inhibition on Sugar-Rich Diets. Cell Reports, 2017; 18 (2): 299 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.029