Even when obese mice lose weight by eating less on a high-fat diet, their belly fat stays inflamed — unlike mice that eat a healthy low-fat diet, whose inflammation goes away.

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Caloric restriction-induced weight loss with a high-fat diet does not fully recover visceral adipose tissue inflammation in previously obese C57BL/6 mice.

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Even when obese mice lost weight by eating less, their belly fat stayed inflamed—unlike mice that ate healthy food from the start. So, just losing weight isn’t enough to fix the inflammation caused by eating junk food.

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Caloric restriction-induced weight loss with a high-fat diet does not fully recover visceral adipose tissue inflammation in previously obese C57BL/6 mice.

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DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2020-0220

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