Scientists Discover Likely New Trigger for Epidemic of Metabolic Syndrome

No they didn't; unless they discovered overeating.

UC Davis scientists have uncovered a key suspect in the destructive inflammation that underlies heart disease and diabetes. The new research shows elevated levels of a receptor present on leucocytes of the innate immune response in people at risk for these chronic diseases. The receptors are the body's first line of defense against infectious invaders, and they trigger a rush of cytokines, the body's aggressive immune soldiers, into the bloodstream.

Basically, metabolic syndrome is what one gets from being too darned fat.

There is only one trigger to getting too fat - overconsuming Calories.

There is absolutely no other way.

If there is an epidemic, it is because too many people are eating too many Calories.

Period.

Crap research.

There is no new trigger, unless it is the same as the old trigger.