In terms of health, not all fats are equally useful.

If olive oil is good, then corn is not very.

A new study shows that some fats increase the risk of bowel cancer, and this is a serious reason to reconsider your diet.

Regardless of body weight, certain fats violate immune processes in rodents, subsequently causing malignant cell degeneration.

Employees of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) assure that proper nutrition will allow a person to avoid (or at least postpone) terrible diseases.

But what kind of food is right? Scientists are on the way to an answer.

"We found out that certain diets high in fat (for example, coconut or corn) contribute to the appearance of intestinal tumors in rodents. This model should interest patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, a disease with an 80% risk of cancer in mutations in the Ars suppressor gene, "says Dr. John Lambris,.

Dr. Lambris is the head of the new project, Professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The results of his work were published in the journal Molecular Cancer Research, where the professor compares corn, coconut and olive oil.

A few days after the transition to feed with coconut or corn oil in the intestines of animals developed an inflammatory process. Later, many of them developed malignant tumors of the large intestine.

If such rodents on time give drugs that suppress the complement system (part of innate immunity), then the tumors can be avoided. The drug blocks the inflammatory reaction in the intestine, and the cells remain healthy.

Theoretically, such drugs can be used to prevent bowel cancer in people with hereditary predisposition, but this is a topic for future work.

The authors draw attention to another important lesson of the study.

Abuse of corn and coconut oil is extremely dangerous to health, while olive oil carries no threat.

medbe. en.