You’d be amazed by how many studies are finding fault with the Western diet. From higher obesity rates to increased cardiovascular disease risk to greater chances of cancer to staggering mortality rates, the Western diet is contributing to a lot of health problems!
Note: The term “Western Diet” is used to refer to the Standard American Diet (SAD), which is characterized by excessive intake of high-sugar drinks, red and processed meats, high-fat dairy products, refined grains, potatoes, and fried foods. While many of these foods aren’t unhealthy on their own, consumed in excess and in combination with unhealthy ingredients leads to an unhealthy diet.
Our Western style of eating has been proven to wreak a lot of havoc on the body. According to a study published in January 2018, it may do more than just affect our digestive system. The results of our Western diet could even be causing problems with our immune systems!
The study found that the Western diet triggered systemic inflammation, or low-grade swelling in the entire body. However, as soon as the mice switched back to their regular chow diet, the systemic inflammation decreased. In fact, it decreased to the point that it was no longer detectable in their bodies.
What happened was the Western diet basically caused genetic reprogramming of the myeloid progenitor cells, the cells that are responsible for the proliferation and reaction of your immune responses. This reprogramming of the immune cells triggered the inflammation around the body. The study found that the Western diet essentially trains your body to activate the inflammatory response to the food you eat.
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What does this mean for you? As we all know, the side effects of chronic systemic inflammation are pretty scary, and may include:
Suffice it to say, chronic inflammation is NOT something you want to deal with!
As the above-mentioned study proved, our Western diet plays a significant role in training our body’s inflammatory response. In order to decrease the risk of low-grade inflammation, it’s essential that we take steps to correct our diet.
So what can we do?
A few simple changes to your diet can have massive positive repercussions for your inflammatory health, and your body overall!
Resources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29328911/
https://www.livescience.com/52344-inflammation.html
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