Epigenetics Study - Effects Of Poor Eating Habits Stick Around, Even With A Better Diet

Monday, November 3, 2014 - 11:50 in Health & Medicine

Improve your eating habits and will improve your health, common medical wisdom goes. A new article in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology finds that we might as well keep eating poorly. They contend that the effects of poor eating habits persist after dietary habits are improved. In their mouse study, even after successful treatment of atherosclerosis (including lowering of blood cholesterol and a change in dietary habits) the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle still affected the way the immune system functions. read more

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