When otherwise normal mice are fed a high-fat or high-sucrose diet, they become obese, develop fatty livers and acquire abnormalities in their livers, including reduced numbers of natural killer T (NKT) cells, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Duke University.
What’s more, these diet-induced changes may contribute to obesity-related liver disease, according to the new study, which is published in the October 2005 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
This study is just one of many that point to the dangers of consuming a high-sugar and high-fat diet.
Read the abstract here.
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