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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Neutrophils have a preference to engulf refined Carbohydrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil_granulocyte

Neutrophils have a preference to engulf refined carbohydrate(glucose, fructose, sucrose, honey and orange juice) over bacteria.In 1973 Sanchez et al. found that the neutrophil phagocytic capacity to engulf bacteria is affected when simple sugars are digested.And fasting strengthens the neutrophils phagocytic capacity to engulf bacteria.However the digestion of normal starches has no effect. They concluded that the scientific data found that the function, and not the number of phagocytes in engulfing bacteria was altered by the ingestion of sugars.In 2007 researchers at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research found that even amongst just a selection of sugars, neutrophils can again be picky and engulf preferred sugars.

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