Scientific Evidence: Sugar can Permanently Change DNA
An Australian research team from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne has found that genes remember a sugar hit for two weeks. What’s more, continued poor eating habits can permanently alter your DNA and potentially pass the genetic damage onto your descendants.1
The team studied how diet impacted heart tissue and found sugar caused cells to switch off the genetic controls that protect that body against diabetes and heart disease for a period of two weeks.