Our findings, for the first time, suggest that males and females respond to high-fat diets differently, said Deborah Clegg of the Cedar-Sinai Diabetes And Obesity Research Institute in Los Angeles. The data would suggest that is probably ok for females to occasionally have a high-fat meal, wher
Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute scientist Deborah Clegg, PhD, and a team of international investigators found that the brains of male laboratory mice exposed to the same high-fat diet as their female counterparts developed brain inflammation and heart disease that were not seen
For the first time, we have identified remarkable differences in the sexes when it comes to how the body responds to high-fat diets, says Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute scientist Deborah Clegg. The brains of the male mice became inflamed and their hearts were damaged. But th