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Chronic inflammation can quietly harm the body over time, often acting as a driving force behind many health conditions. Despite being a natural and essential part of the body’s immune response, inflammation can sometimes get out of hand, leading to serious health concerns. Understanding what it is, what causes it, and how to manage it is essential to achieving long-term wellness.
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There are so many diets out there, yet so few seem to have a recipe for success. Many factors come into play as to why so many people give up on their diet from poor planning and feeling overwhelmed and deprived to simply not getting enough from their diet to persevere. It’s important to understand the purposes of different diets as some are long-term lifestyle changes and others are simply meant to reboot your health. So, when it comes to choosing the right diet, it’s best to take a look at your options. Additionally, nowadays people often pair this type of diet with Mobile IV therapy to achieve better results. IV therapy can be combined with only a well-balanced diet and can boost the individual’s weight loss efforts.
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Populations who have had a primarily vegetarian diet for generations carried a genetic mutation which raised risk of cancer and heart disease
By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
10:00PM BST 29 Mar 2016
Long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found.
Populations who have had a primarily vegetarian diet for generations were found to be far more likely to carry DNA which makes them susceptible to inflammation.
Scientists in the US believe that the mutation occured to make it easier for vegetarians to absorb essential fatty acids from plants.
But it has the knock-on effect of boosting the production of arachidonic acid, which is known to increase inflammatory disease and cancer. When coupled with a diet high in vegetable oils – such as sunflower oil – the mutated gene quickly turns fatty acids into dangerous arachidonic acid.
The finding may help explain previous research which found vegetarian populations are nearly 40 per cent more likely to suffer colorectal cancer than meat eaters, a finding that has puzzled doctors because eating red meat is known to raise the risk.
Researchers from Cornell University in the US compared hundreds of genomes from a primarily vegetarian population in Pune, India to traditional meat-eating people in Kansas and found there was a significant genetic difference.