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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Oh look the d word

[trdtaylor]

"However, the diet was also important for creating the right conditions for the lean twin's bacteria to flourish. A bacterial obesity therapy seems unlikely to work alongside a a diet of greasy burgers."

Guess what, proper diet still required. /surprise.

Re:Oh look the d word

[jamesh]

PH of a very acidic soda = 2.522, PH of stomach acid = 1.35

Don't blame the soda for having an acidic stomach.

If you drink something acidic, the total acidity level of your stomach will be more than if you drink water.

That last statement is correct, but your stomach will still be less acidic than if you drank nothing, so it doesn't support the original statement that drinking soda makes your stomach more acidic as drinking anything less acidic than stomach acid will always make your stomach less acidic. There are a bunch of reasons why drinking lots of soda isn't a good idea, but acidifying your stomach isn't one of them.

Re:FIAF.

[hamburger lady]

yeah, i doubt the authors of the Science study above read any relevant literature at all.

Re:FIAF.

[hamburger lady]

You'd be surprised what kind of crap gets published in Science and Nature

certainly it's garbage compared to a blog post by a veterinarian.