Are Germs Making You Fat? (Advertising for Pharma)

[TalkingDog]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35715296/ns/health/

Germs that make their home in the gut may help cause obesity and a range of health-threatening symptoms that go along with it, researchers reported on Thursday.

It could be that certain bacteria cause inflammation that can affect appetite as well as inflammatory bowel conditions like Crohn's disease and colitis, the researchers reported in the journal Science.

In other words, the germs make you overeat, Andrew Gewirtz of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues reported.

"Previous research has suggested that bacteria can influence how well energy is absorbed from food, but these findings demonstrate that intestinal bacteria can actually influence appetite," Gewirtz said.

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I've read the same theories from "alternative" sources for years. I didn't realize this was news. And for the "skeptics" (ie don't tell me anything I don't already believe) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479479/ (results: somewhat effective for certain problems) Yes from Canada, you know that system we tout as having the kind of health care system we want.....

and http://journals.lww.com/jpgn/Abstract/2001/10002/Probiotics_in_the_Treatment_and_Prevention_of.4.aspx (results: very effective for specific problems)

So, they mention anti-biotics 3 times, but nobody talks about pro-biotics. I mean, I realize it's "alternative", but for pete's sake......

[notadmblnd]

1. No, I'm thinking it's pretty much the night grazing I do.

If the food in the fridge would just stop calling out to me at night. I think I'd be ok.

[left coaster]

2. "night grazing"..

I am so stealing that. :)

[notadmblnd]

7. go for it.

when I sit down at the end of the day and have nothing left to do.. I swear that refrigerator calls our my name.... Caaaaathy, come and see what I have for you to eat... c'mon baby, you know you want it.....

now, if I could just get a man to say that to me, I might drop some tonnage.

[madrchsod]

4. i graze all day.....drives my wife crazy because..

i never eat a big meal. in fact i`m going to the refrig........

[TalkingDog]

6. Yeah, the day grazing is supposed to be good for certain folks.

Nite grazing good for 0 folks.

The Spousal Unit is a grazer. We jokingly say he eats 3 square meals a day. Just not all at one time.

People are amazed at how much he eats and how little he weighs by comparison. Years ago he ate with the same pattern but different food (that obviously didn't agree with him...gluten for one) Once we got him off the things that were bothering his system, he dropped 25 lbs. His blood sugar stays stable now and people who hadn't seen him in a while would comment on how good his color/skin looked.

The right food makes all the difference in the world.

[BrotherLove]

3. No, I have the appetite of a Buffalo and the metabolism of a speed bump

[TalkingDog]

5. Ha! Well, I think as one (not me of course) gets older

it takes more effort to burn off less cals.

So, just tell everybody your metabolism is 100 and your appetite is 18.


Welcome to DU

[condoleeza]

8. Boy, that's really reaching as an explanation for obesity

I don't know too many people w/Crohns or Colitis who aren't skinny, since we can't digest food properly and eating makes us sick so we just generally don't eat much.

No doubt that this is advertising for bigPharma. From my research they are seeing this backwards. The inflammatory conditions are most often caused by food sensitivities that damage the villi in the small intestine and make it vulnerable to bad bacteria. Nearly all the research on diet as a cause of the bowel diseases has been done by countries that have Nationalized healthcare. They know that they will save $ by curing illness. Since bigPharma pretty much runs the healthcare system in the US, there is no motivation for research that would actually cure a disease and big $ in developing drugs to treat the symptoms.

1 in 100 have Celiac Disease - 1 in 4 have gluten sensitivity. GS is the main cause of most bowel disease and once the damage is done - it's done. Love the skeptics on this, though, most are probably moles planted by the drug companies and the food companies that are destroying our health.