What (Not) to Eat during Infection?/ Cell Sept. 8, 2016 (Vol. 166, Issue 6)

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Have you ever wondered why you lost appetite when sick? Maybe it is your body's way to tell you not to eat certain food so you can survive the sickness. Rusland Medzhitov and his colleagues of Yale University in this Cell paper reveal the hidden interaction between metabolic requirement and microbial infection. 
Infection, food, nutrition, immune system. Check out the paper at:  http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30972-2.

Andrew Wang, Sarah C. Huen, Harding H. Luan, Shuang Yu, Cuiling Zhang, Jean-Dominique Gallezot, Carmen J. Booth, and Ruslan Medzhitov (2016). Opposing Effects of Fasting Metabolism on Tissue  Tolerance in Bacterial and Viral Inflammation. Cell 166.

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