Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Tiny Bugs in Your Stomach Determine How Fat You Get

The amount of weight you gain depends partly on the types of microbes found in your gut, a new study on mice reveals. The better the microbes are at sucking out energy from food the more likely a mouse will be fat, researchers say. The Good news? When fat people diet, they lose some of these fattening microbes, according to related study.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe I may have hundreds of billions of these fattening microbes. That explains why I'm so...sexy?

11:24 PM  

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