Eating high fat foods can cause serious illness

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – According to a recent scientific study, the consumption of fatty and sugary foods is not limited to weight gain and obesity.

According to the website of the British newspaper "Daily Mail", researchers have discovered through the study of rats that fatty and sugary foods can cause blood poisoning, regardless of their health status or their weight..

In the UK, at least 46,000 people die each year from leukemia, an immune response to infection leading to vital organ failure.

To confirm the results of the study, researchers led by Brooke Napier, an assistant professor of biology at Portland State University, fed mice with a different diet..

The first diet was the Western diet (WD) , Which was described as low in fiber and high in fat and sugar, the other diet consisted of a healthy diet, high in fiber (SC).

The study showed that mice that ate the Western diet WD Suffering from an increase in chronic inflammation, sepsis and high mortality compared to mice receiving a normal diet.

"These results indicate that rats are suffering from more severe sepsis and are dying faster because of something in their diet, and not because of weight gain," said Professor Napier.

These results could help hospitals monitor the meals of ICU patients because they are more likely to develop sepsis, the researchers said.