Yes, eating feeds it and dieting kills it. How much did they spend on this study? 
Posted on 04/01/2003 10:35:49 AM PST by Eric
A study published in the highly respected New England Journal of Eternal Medicine due out today claims that obesity is caused by a virus.
The finding, if valid, directly contradicts the widely accepted theory that links obesity with lifestyle factors such as diet and lack of exercise.
Researchers said they were studying the relationship between a defective gene and binge eating when they stumbled upon the virus.
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Yes, eating feeds it and dieting kills it. How much did they spend on this study?
is this what you had in (feeble) mind, this hallowed fool's day???
An interesting side issue was discovered. This lab had a colony of mice for study purposes that exhibited obesity. When they identified the gene which caused the obesity they developed an enzyme treatment to "correct" the gene. Voila! the mice slimmed down. BTW these obese mice were diabetic and when their obesity was cured so was the diabetes.
As a Type Two Diabetic I'm thrilled that a cure may be in the near future.
Deliverying the enzyme is the problem but work is ongoing to a delivery method that will work.
Back in '96 Newt Gingrich suggested that curing diabetes would reduce Medicare expenses by 40-50%. Given the costs for diabetes and obesity we should be spending the research dollars for this purpose.
Maybe the virus causes sloth and gluttony? Not directly of course, but indirectly through other effects. Although I could imagine constant hunger being caused by a messed up metabolism caused by a virus. The sloth part might only come after the weight goes on, but constant "tiredness" could also be caused by a virus. Not saying it is, but I wouldn't want to dimiss the possibility out of hand either. For one thing, you'd look pretty dumb if the intial report proves out, now wouldn't you?
Not logically it doesn't. Perhaps the virus "causes" or contributes to the lifestyle factors? Wouldn't that be great if it was true. However like most things that are "too good to be true", it probably isn't. Unless this virus is like the most of the others, and there is really nothing you can do about it once you get it, other than support your immune system in dealing with it.
Lighten up Bubba.
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I have two friends who are thin and both eat the most abnormally large amounts of food. One is hyper-active who obviously needs the continuos fuel in his furnace but the other guy is the most useless, lazy, under active person I know. How his metabolism burns all that food off without giving him motivation is a mystery to all who know him.
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