Share on Pinterest A new review emphasizes the negative impact of the Western diet on gut health. Image credit: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. Past research has linked the Western ...

New research from Denmark reveals that a mother's diet during pregnancy—characterized by a Western dietary pattern high in fat and sugar and low in fresh ingredients—may increase the risk of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, researchers developed an initial-life Western diet (WD) murine model associated with long-term hippocampal (HPC) dysfunction ...

Share on Pinterest Switching to a traditional African diet helped protect against inflammation in a new study. Image credit: Westend61/Getty Images. Chronic inflammation is a major driver of lifestyle ...

Researchers show how mice fed a Western-style diet are not able to rebuild a 'healthy,' diverse gut microbiome following antibiotic treatment. These mice were also more susceptible to infection by ...

A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a bold new experiment, researchers asked Tanzanian men to swap their plant-based, fiber-rich diets for a Western-style regimen ...

The gut microbiome plays a role in both, and potentially plays a causative role in the development of some of these conditions. It is also a potential therapeutic target. The Western diet, though ...