Unhealthy Diet Triggers Epigenetic Changes in Innate Immune System

An international team of researchers has found that the immune system reacts to typically high-calorie, Western-style diets in much the same way that it does to bacterial infections, setting in motion inflammatory responses and long-term innate immune system stimulation that could play a role in the development of diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The studies, led by a team at the University of Bonn, found that feeding mice a Western diet (WD) that was hi