Obesity makes fat cells act like they're infected

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

Scientists report that a high calorie diet causes fat cells to act as if under pathogenic attack. The researchers have identified a root cause of the diet-caused fat tissue inflammation that has baffled medical researchers for decades.

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