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High-sugar diet can damage the gut’s protective mucus layer, lead to worse colitis – News-Medical.Net
Mice fed diets high in sugar developed worse colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and researchers examining their large intestines found more of…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 28 2020
Mice fed diets high in sugar developed worse colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and researchers examining their large intestines found more of the bacteria that can damage the gut’s protective mucus layer.
“Colitis is a major public health problem in the U.S. and in other Western countries,” says Hasan Zaki, Ph.D., who led the study that appears in today’s Science Translational Medicine. “This is very important from a public health…
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