Eating fast food and feeling pain

Eating fast food and feeling pain

A recent American study found that eating fast food can cause pain or make people more sensitive to pain, even if they are healthy and thin.

And some of the fats in fast food can cause cholesterol to build up in the arteries, which leads to inflammation and joint pain, according to what was reported on the British Daily Mail website.

It is known that obesity or eating fast food for a long time can lead to chronic pain, but what is new is that researchers now say that just eating a few meals may also cause harm.

A study in mice found that saturated fats in the blood bind to receptors on nerve cells that trigger inflammation and mimic symptoms of nerve damage.

This process was observed after only 8 weeks of eating a high-fat diet that did not contain enough calories to gain weight in the rodents.

Previous studies looked at the relationship between high-fat diets and obese or diabetic mice.

It comes after a study found that intermittent fasting - one of the most popular and popular dieting techniques - may actually increase the risk of early death.

"This latest study took more variables and was able to begin to identify a direct relationship between diet and chronic pain," Laura Simmons, a registered dietitian who was not involved in the study, told Medical News Today.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, compared the effects of different diets on two groups of mice over the course of eight weeks.

One of them received normal food, while the other group was fed a non-obese, high-fat diet.

The team looked for saturated fats in her blood. They found that mice on a high-fat diet had higher levels of palmitic acid. They also observed that the fat binds to the nerve receptor TLR4, causing the release of inflammatory markers.

The researchers believe that drugs that target this receptor could be key to preventing inflammation and pain caused by poor diets.

Dr. Michael Burton, assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas, added: “We discovered that if you remove the receptor that palmitic acid binds to, you don't see the desensitizing effect on those neurons. This indicates that there is a way to prevent it pharmacologically.