Nutrition May Fight TB, Study Finds
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Proper nutrition might be an important weapon against tuberculosis, which has reemerged as a major public health threat around the world in the last few years, researchers said. An estimated 3 million to 4 million people a year die of tuberculosis. Some strains of the disease that resist standard medications have also appeared. In an experiment on mice exposed to TB, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York found that the animals given a low-protein diet were more likely to become ill than those given a high-protein diet.
