Research
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Western and fast-food dietary patterns are associated with higher levels of oxidative stress and inflammatory biomarkers compared to plant-based or healthy dietary patterns.
Minimize consumption of Western and fast-food diets, which are linked to higher oxidative stress and inflammation. Replacing these with plant-based patterns like Mediterranean or DASH can help reduce these biomarkers.
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Vice versa, studies that explored Western and fast-food diets (based on data from observational studies) reported higher levels of oxidative stress and inflammation biomarkers.
Why this rating
Based on observational studies; fewer intervention studies specifically targeting Western diets were included.
Source
Dietary patterns and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation: A systematic review of observational and intervention studies
Krasimira Aleksandrova et al. · Redox Biology · 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.redox.2021.101869
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Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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