The popular opinion that low carb and high protein diets help in maintaining the waistline also have the chance to alleviate hospital-acquired infections. The study surrounding the hospital-acquired infection Clostridioides difficile was published in the journal mSystems. In the study scientists found that an interaction between antibiotic use and a high-fat/high-protein diet exacerbate C. diff infections in mice. Conversely they found that a high-carbohydrate diet - which was correspondingly low in fat and protein - nearly eliminated symptoms. diff an intestinal infection designated as an urgent threat by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is often acquired when