Fatty foods are dangerous

A recent research suggests that eating fatty food, even if you're slim, could be deadlier than you think. Fat hinders the effect of medicine and can cause the body's invisible army of warrior cells to mutiny and worsen heart disease, diabetes and even cancer, The key culprit is a gene called PAI-1, roused like a terrorist sleeper cell, in this case by fatty tissue or free-roaming fat molecules that come from fatty foods or from being obese. Even in lean adults, high dietary fat may increase PAI-1 secretion and alter the risk for heart disease.

Understanding these mechanisms and identifying the fat-derived factors that activate marcrophages (mutinous defensive cells) could lead to new targeted therapies for these conditions, which have increased to epidemic proporations globally but particularly in India.

With nearly 35 million diabetics, India leads a world diabetes epidemic. Cardiovascular disease is the leading killer in the world and in India, with diabetes its leading cause.