date:Oct 15, 2012
ff infection or heal. But whole-body, elevated inflammation -- as evidenced by increased levels of certain protein markers in the blood -- has actually been shown to predict future weight gain in a study of non-diabetic healthy men. Inflammation, in short, helps make you fat.
Obesity, in turn, promotes chronically elevated inflammation. As this Harvard review article puts it, A chronic, subacute state of inflammation often accompanies the accumulation of excess lipid in adipose tissue and liver