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Eating different types of fats can change the levels of inflammation markers in your blood. When healthy men ate controlled diets for 5 weeks, the specific type of fat they ate determined how their inflammation markers went up or down.
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Dietary fatty acids affect plasma markers of inflammation in healthy men fed controlled diets: a randomized crossover study.
Randomized Controlled Trial
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2004 JunThe study fed 50 healthy men different diets with specific fatty acids for 5 weeks and found that each type of fatty acid changed inflammation markers differently - some increased certain markers while others decreased them, proving that dietary fats can indeed affect inflammation in humans.
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