Obesity’s Harms Limited by “Good” Inflammation

Obesity and its complications are associated with chronic inflammation, but new findings show that a certain kind of inflammation is needed to prepare fat tissue for healthy weight gain. Moreover, in mice, this “good” inflammation appears to improve energy metabolism, staving off or even reversing the prediabetic phenotype. Now that this beneficial inflammatory mechanism has been identified, it may lead to new therapeutic approaches against metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.The