Posted on 12/21/2011 8:03:50 AM PST by decimon
Bacteria living in people's large intestine may slow down the activity of the "good" kind of fat tissue, a special fat that quickly burns calories and may help prevent obesity, scientists are reporting in a new study. The discovery, published in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, could shed light on ways to prevent obesity and promote weight loss, including possible microbial and pharmaceutical approaches, the authors said.
Sandrine P. Claus, Jeremy K. Nicholson and colleagues explain that trillions of bacteria live in the large intestine of healthy people, where they help digest food and make certain vitamins. In recent years, however, scientists have realized that these bacteria do more — they interact with the rest of the body in ways that affect the use of energy and its storage as fat and finely tune the immune system. Claus and Nicholson decided to see how intestinal bacteria might affect the activity of brown fat. The "good" fat that burns calories quickly before they can be stored as fat, brown fat exists in small deposits in the neck area and elsewhere — not like "white fat" in flab around the waist and buttocks. No one had checked to see if those bacteria could have an effect on brown fat, the researchers noted.
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Here’s another excuse.
The bacteria made me do it!
I am not Fat I am BACTERIALLY CHALLENGED!
Excuse?
White fat and brown fat? Seriously? Is this from the Onion?
Let me be the first to say it: That’s RACIST!
“I’m not fat, I have more white fat than brown!”
Reverse racism!
And you were. Rats!
I type slow.
For being a blubber butt, the Michelin Man, Pillsbury Dough Boy, Rosie's stand in, Beluga Boy...
Honest, it wasn’t the 10 boxes of cookies or the 5 bags of chips. It also wasn’t the icecream or cakes, not even the pizza or cheese laden burgers. It’s the lousy bacteria I tell you!!
BTW, I hate walking this fat around so I ride the scooter to get me to the cookies, cakes and icecream. /S
I see. So you discount the findings out of hand?
Study funded by Nestle just putting up a road block when the feds start trying to tax them for a fat tax and believe me that is right around the corner.
You're not familiar with my posting history.
I don't discount it at all. Just adding, hopefully, a bit of humor.
Then I apologize. Just seemed a bit too flippant.
Probiotic products are popular and I'm sure Nestle has some.
you are correct here it is:
http://www.nestle.com/RANDD/INNOVATIONS/ALLINNOVATIONS/Pages/Protection-through-probiotics.aspx
No problem. Misunderstandings are in the nature of this medium and I don't know what can be done about it.
Nestle is a huge company. Hard to imagine they would not be involved.
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