(HealthDay News) -- For a certain kind of worm, the sweet life may also be the short life.
New research suggests that added sugar in their diet robs the creatures of 20 percent of their life span.
It's unclear what the findings mean for humans, but they raise questions about the impact of diets high in sugar, according to the study authors, who report their findings in the November issue of the journal Cell Metabolism.
In the study, researchers added a small amount of glucose -- sugar -- to the diet of worms known as C. elegans. The worms normally eat bacteria.
The worms had shorter lives, apparently because of the sugar's effect on the worms' insulin signals, according to the report. Read more...
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