'Medicinal food' diet counters onset of type 1 diabetes

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 08:32 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have found -- for the first time -- that a diet yielding high amounts of the short-chain fatty acids acetate and butyrate provided a beneficial effect on the immune system and protected against type 1 or juvenile diabetes.

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