[decimon]

Ping

[petercooper]

bttt

[Paladin2]

Finally, an obesity epidemic theory that makes some sense.

[fightinJAG]

As a side issue, this study also points to how important it is to have natural (vaginal) birth whenever possible.

As more and more women scheduled c-sections simply for their convenience — being told it made no difference to their baby’s health — fewer babies got the gene-specific gut flora dose they would have had they been born vaginally.

Every time man tries to equate what he dreams up with the processes that God created, he dorks it up on some level.

[martin_fierro]

You can have my gut flora why you pry it from my cold, dead ... er ... gut.

[Albion Wilde]

Wonder who paid for this research? Still, this probiotic yogurt tastes good and doesn't hurt you, so why not? I get it in cartons of 32 at a wholesale store.

[heartwood]

Personal experiment: replacing calories with a high quality active culture plain yogurt has not resulted in weight loss for me. Your mileage may vary.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Shut up and eat your damned yogurt!"

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[chuckles]

My daughter has Crohn’s and probiotics absolutely help. The best one we’ve found is Garden of Life-Primal Defense ULTRA. It has the largest variation of different probiotics and in sufficient amounts. I can’t say whether it helps her weight or not.

[diamond6]

Yogurt ping

[JoeProBono]

[daisy mae for the usa]

Here is a recipe for making your own yogurt. It works well. I tried it. But I do prefer the stove-top method. Stove-top makes a thicker type. Either way, it takes 100% better than store bought!

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-can-make-yogurt-in-your-crockpot.html

I was scared to try it at first, but once I did, YUM! Cost effective, too!

[aruanan]

"Rats who were given this specific lactic acid bacterium from their time in the uterus up to adult age put on significantly less weight than other rats. Both groups ate the same amount of high-energy food", explains Caroline Karlsson, a researcher in food hygiene at Lund University.

If the rats actually ingested exactly the same amount of the same food, about the only thing this could mean is that the lactic acid bacterium-laden rats absorbed less nutrients through their guts than the other rats, resulting in the difference in weight/fat between the two groups.

Feed was administered ad libitum, and the consumption per cage was recorded once a week.

But, now that I've read the paper, the rats didn't eat the same amount of high-energy food. They were allowed to feed on the same high-energy food ad libitum, which means whenever they felt like eating it. So the mechanism may be that certain bacteria resulted in an increase in appetite, the Ec rats, or helped to restrain appetite, the Lp rats.

A further complication could be this: To further stress the system, by exposure from fetal life to adulthood, rat dams of the outbreed Sprague–Dawley stock were mated and fed with a high-energy-dense diet (HEDD) and bacterial supplement during pregnancy and lactation, and then their offspring received the same treatment for 6 months.

Changes in parents' phenotypes due to environmental factors can manifest in differences in offspring in different ways and even have effects on succeeding and future generations, aka epigenetics.