Western Diet Diseases
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Western diet diseases. The gut microbiome is absolutely essential for health and when compromised can cause disease the western diet puts a strain on the immune system. Of bonn germany have found out that calorie rich fatty western diet reprogrammes the innate immune system to become hyperreactive to inflammatory triggers. This could have huge medical impact as inflammation is a hallmark of most diseases of civilisation such as diabetes cardiovascular and autoimmune disorders. An examination of its relationship with chronic disease.
And the amount of fast food the. A western pattern diet is associated with an increased risk of obesity. Immunologists headed by eicke latz univ. Diseases caused by western diet areco more common than ever.
And this isn t just occurring in the united states. This review describes studies carrie. In fact it is estimated that a combination of diet and inactivity contributes to as many as 25 of alzheimer s cases. From infancy a healthy balance of microbes.
The diseases and conditions mentioned above are spreading at the fastest rates in history. Diet is a component in the etiology of the two major causes of death in the united states namely cardiovascular disease and cancer. 22 2008 indulging in a typical western diet of burgers fries and diet soda boosts your risk of getting heart disease and diabetes a study shows. According to the newspaper a study has found that poor diet is responsible for 30 of the risk of heart disease.
Recent research has established associations between certain environmental factors including eating a western diet and being sedentary with an increased susceptibility to alzheimer s disease. Ancestral diets the evolution of the western diet and western diseases which were published between 1967 and 2004. There is a positive correlation between a western pattern diet and several plasma biomarkers that may be mediators of obesity such as hdl cholesterol high levels of fasting insulin and leptin. Meta analyses have also shown that compared to a healthy diet a western pattern diet is linked to increased weight gain among.
The problem is global. Western style diets high in meat fat dairy and salt put people at higher risk of heart attack. Breast cancer prostate cancer coronary heart disease and colon cancer belong to the so called western diseases and a general opinion is that diet is a significant or even the main factor increasing incidence and mortality of these diseases in the western world. Western diets cause a third of heart attack deaths worldwide the daily mail reports.