Dietary sugar intake directly feeds and accelerates infections
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 87/100
Evidence indicates that high dietary sugar intake contributes to metabolic inflammation and alters immune and inflammatory responses associated with infection susceptibility.
Evidence for · 2
Regulating metabolic inflammation by nutritional modulation.
2020 · cited by 87
Paper [0] notes that adverse dietary factors including certain sugars drive metaflammation and that obese diabetic patients with metabolic disorders have a higher risk of infection.
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Fructose intake enhances lipoteichoic acid-mediated immune response in monocytes of healthy humans.
2025 · cited by 0
Paper [7] demonstrates that dietary fructose intake enhances bacterial toxin-induced immune responses and alters inflammatory cytokine release in humans.