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I’m Not Fat—I’ve Just Got Fat Bacteria
Discover Magazine ^
| May 05, 2005
| Jocelyn Selim
Posted on 09/21/2005 3:49:29 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
An expanding waistline may have less to with what a person eats than what’s already inside, say microbiologists Jeffrey Gordon and Fredrik Backhed at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. Variations in the population of bacteria living in the gut may explain why some people pack on extra pounds while others stay slim.
Gordon and Backhed base their claim on a study of two groups of mice, one exposed to normal intestinal microbes and another raised in a germ-free bubble. The germ-free mice had 42 percent less body fat, even though they were fed one-third more calories. When the animals were inoculated with bacteria from their normal counterparts, the bubble mice increased their body fat by 57 percent in just two weeks.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bacteria; fat; medicine; overweight; waistline
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I knew it wasn't my fault all along. ":^/
To: Past Your Eyes
Those scientists are stuck on stupid.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:50:32 PM PDT
by
uncitizen
To: Past Your Eyes
Antibiotic Diet Alert. Film at 11.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:50:50 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Past Your Eyes
yeah, i'm just big boned.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:50:52 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
(Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1700 replies and not a single post!)
To: Past Your Eyes
Not the flesh-eating variety apparently...
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:51:36 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Past Your Eyes
I've been trying to kill them with Twinkies tm. but
it's not working.
Maybe Ding Dongs?
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:52:54 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:53:50 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Cindy, ya shoulda stuck with "offshore drilling" as your cause)
To: Past Your Eyes
I don't suppose there's any way of having them there fat germs injected into other parts of my anatomy?
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:54:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: tet68
Slim Jims....hence the name.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:55:02 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: tet68
I tend to favor those Funny Bones. And glazed doughnuts.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:55:41 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: pipecorp
I think I'm retaining fat.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:55:50 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: ErnBatavia
LOL! I doubt any bacterium in existence could survive in that alcohol bath!
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:56:45 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Past Your Eyes
you ought to hear what the bacteria are saying about her.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:56:49 PM PDT
by
smonk
To: pipecorp
>>>yeah, i'm just big boned.
I'm too short for my weight.
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posted on
09/21/2005 3:58:16 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)
To: mewzilla
"Not the flesh-eating variety apparently..."
That would be the recommended therapy to allieve the situation, don't you think?
To: uncitizen
"Those scientists are stuck on stupid."ROFL! Been waiting for that one to turn up!
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
KoRn
To: Past Your Eyes
C'mon - what's taking so long?
This is all Bush's fault.
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:04:11 PM PDT
by
43north
(If you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart. If you're still liberal at 40 you have no brain.)
To: KoRn
Been waiting for that one to turn up!
That predictable, eh?
To: ErnBatavia
Teddy aint fat...he's just infected
To: Past Your Eyes
I'm not over weight.
I'm under tall.
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:16:16 PM PDT
by
i_dont_chat
(Our President's intervention saved lives.)
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