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Quote: Unstressed women who ate a biscuits-and-gravy breakfast made mostly with saturated fat fared worse in blood tests looking for precursors to disease than those women who ate an identical breakfast made primarily with monounsaturated sunflower oil. This study is the first to show that stress has the potential to cancel out benefits of choosing healthier fats, said Kiecolt-Glaser, who directs the Institute for Behavioral Medicine at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center.
The research appears in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
Quote:Going into the study, Kiecolt-Glaser and her collaborators knew that both diet and stress can alter inflammation in the body. That's important because chronic inflammation is linked to a litany of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.