Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients

Beeftopia writes "Researchers discovered that inserting gut bacteria from obese people into mice without gut bacteria led to the mice becoming obese. Gut bacteria from slim people inserted into the same mice did not lead to mouse obesity. The researchers concluded (abstract) that gut bacteria from the slim people were more efficient at extracting nutrients from food than those of the obese."

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Correlation is not causation...

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, goody, it's another one of those dumb-ass "it's not my fault" articles that tries to excuse fat fucks for being fat fucks.

Here's a clue: it's not your gut bacteria, you're not big boned, you don't have an impossibly rare medical condition: you eat too much and never exercise.

Stop trying to find bullshit medical reasons, take on some personal responsibility, eat right, exercise daily, and you'll find that - gasp - it really was your own fucking fault!

OK, so we've determined that the gut bacteria in a fat fuck is different from that in a healthy person. Great. Have we demonstrated yet that it isn't just the bacteria has adapted to living in a fat fuck? Because my money is on the bacteria adapting to its surroundings rather than the other way around. Give it too many nutrients (overeat) and it'll stop wasting as much energy extracting nutrients. Do the opposite, and it'll have to adapt to survive.

Or, to put it another way: correlation is not causation.