Can You Live Longer by Cutting Out Sugar?

That's what the research at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of San Francisco suggests. They found that by adding a small amount of glucose (2%) to the diet of nematodes, it shortened their lifespan. It did this by inhibiting the life span-extending transcription factors. Well that's just short for not a very good thing to you and me. Their findings suggest that by substituting simple sugars with complex ones or with stevia (natural sugar alternative) it might have beneficial effects on life span in higher organisms (ie. you and me). The study was published in Cell Metabolism, Nov. 2009.