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How summer and diet damage your DNA, and what you can do

  • Written by Adam Barsouk, Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh
Bright sun and fatty foods are a bad recipe for your DNA.By Tish1/shutterstock.com

Today, your body will accumulate quadrillions of new injuries in your DNA. The constant onslaught of many forms of damage, some of which permanently mutates your genes, could initiate cancer and prove fatal. Yet all is not doomed: The lives we lead determine how well...

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