Eating more makes the brain and generate inflammation damage that could cause diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses, reported researchers from the University of Wisconsin.New York - Eating more makes the brain and generate inflammation damage that could cause diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses, reported researchers from the University of Wisconsin.

Consuming too many calories triggers the immune system pathway in the brain which is usually inactive. researchers revealed.

The finding, published in the journal Cell, would help explain why obesity causes so many different diseases and provides direction on how to prevent obesity. “This path is present in the brain, but usually inactive,” Cai Dong-sheng, head of the team, said in a statement distributed by Reuters.

Cai’s team worked with mice looking explain studies that demonstrated that obesity causes chronic inflammation throughout the body.

The experts discussed the compound IKKbeta / NK-ka-ppaB they found in the hypothalamus, idle, as is normal. When the researchers fed the rodents with a diet high in fat, the compound became very active and generated by the body to ignore the signs of leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and insulin, which helps turn food into energy .

Stimulate IKKbeta / NK-kappaB did the mice ate more, while removing the compost made them eat less.