The food putting your immune system into ‘destruct’ mode

Sugary drinks and processed foods are bad for us, as we know—but they could be having even more of a damaging effect on our immune system than previous research had suggested.

The foods and drinks, which use fructose sweetener, trigger a series of responses that eventually damage our organs, leading to serious chronic health problems.

Processed food causes far more damage than just obesity and type 2 diabetes, as studies have shown. Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute in London have discovered that a fast-food diet causes our immune system to become inflamed, and this in turn will produce reactive molecules that damage organs, and eventually cause a complete breakdown of healthy body functioning. The result of all of this are chronic health problems.

Diabetes and obesity are just the early signals of a distressed immune system that is starting to become inflamed, the researchers say.

(Source: Nature Communications, 2021; 12(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21461-4)

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