date:Oct 15, 2012
(hepatic steatosis), evidenced by changes in both inflammatory cells and biochemical markers of inflammation.
In other words, obesity and inflammation feed each other in a destructive cycle. This may help explain why weight, once gained, can be so difficult to lose.
Which brings me to a fascinating new paper by Ian Spreadbury of the Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. It provides what I believe could -- and probably should -- become the dominant i