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Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients

Posted by Soulskill on from the starve-them-into-doing-what-you-want dept.

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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  1. Ayn Randius Greedatoria by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I'm chubby because I have socialist bacteria in me? I'm gonna hafta swallow a little Fox News TV for the buggers.

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  2. My new motto by Subacultcha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not fat. I'm just more efficient at extracting nutrients than you.

  3. Re:Hand Sanitizer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm thinking increasing usage of Hand sanitizer is killing our gut bacteria

    So you're the reason the bottle says "for external use only" on it...

  4. Re:Hand Sanitizer by transporter_ii · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No. It's antibiotics. Blaming it on hand cleaner is like running your AC, but complaining about how much charging your cell phone is running up your electric bill.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/health/antibiotics-may-help-make-you-fat-studies-show-958812

    Could antibiotics make you fat?

    Two studies this week suggest that using antibiotics may save people’s lives, but could also change their metabolisms. Put together, the studies suggest that taking antibiotics might alter digestion to help people absorb calories from food they normally would be unable to digest.

    Every human carries pounds of microorganisms that we couldn’t live without. They break down food and extract nutrients like Vitamin K for us. Antibiotics will kill some of these beneficial organisms, which is why so many doctors now tell patients to eat yogurt after taking a course of the drugs, to replace some of the good guys.

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  5. Re:FIAF. by hamburger+lady · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  6. evolutionarily by stenvar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In evolution, one of the biggest threats to humans was starvation. So, what we consider a fat-causing problem these days probably used to be a big evolutionary advantage at some point.

  7. Re:FIAF. by niftymitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well the conclusion for non scientists is obvious. There's going to be a market to extract Julia Roberts' gut bacteria and reinject them into a bunch of fat one percenters for millions of dollars a pop.

    Units are incorrect:
          millions of dollars a poop.

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