date:Jan 24, 2019
According to a new study published in Microbiome, the short term consumption of a high animal fat diet increases a persons susceptibility to a Listeria monocytogenes infection. The study refers to this type of diet as westernized. The study was conducted on mice at the University College Cork.
Researchers found that a high fat and low fermentable fiber diet increases the number of goblet cells, which are a binding site for Listeria bacteria. The diet also induces profound changes to the microbi