Western diet exacerbates sepsis, mouse study suggests
High-fat diets cause a dramatic immune system overreaction to sepsis, a condition of systemic bacterial infection. An experimental study in mice has shown that a diet high in saturated fat, sugars and cholesterol greatly exaggerates the inflammatory response to sepsis.
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Western diet exacerbates sepsis, mouse study suggests
October 19, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet-high, diets-cause, dramatic-immune, greatly-exaggerates, inflammatory, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, saturated-fat, systemic-bacterial, the-inflammatory
