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Inflammatory effects of nutritional stimuli: further support for the need for a big picture approach to tackling obesity and chronic disease
Obesity Reviews, 08/26/09

Egger G et al. – The authors propose that components of certain foods and beverages with which humans have not evolved, are more often the inducers of an inflammatory effect in the body than those with which humans have become more familiar, and to which a neutral, or anti–inflammatory response may be expected to have developed. The implications of such a finding are considered in relation to broader aspects of the environment, economic growth, policy change and current global financial issues.

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G Egger, 08/31/09

This article is meant to be read in conjunction with two others (and one pending) that show that inflammatory 'inducers' are related to the environment and that personal health and the health of the planet (ie. climate change) are intimately related. As the pharmacologists disappear, disillusioned from the obesity field, it is apparent that there will be no immediate pharmaceutical 'magic bullet' to deal with what is, essentially, a public health problem. The obesity pandemic has roots right back to the economic system driving western society, and which, although of tremendous advantage in the past, may have passed its 'use-by-date'.

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