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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by not_that_noob on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @02:44PM (#4944370)
tl;dr: fat guy lost a ton of weight by a diet that reduced a specific kind of gut bacteria; this bacteria inserted into mice engineered to be thin caused the mice to gain weight.

Ergo, bacteria may be driving obesity.

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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by fernly on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:58PM (#4946342)
Not only obesity, but insulin resistance: basically gave the mice the start of "metabolic syndrome", as also observed in obese humans.
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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by jack-r-abbit on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:08PM (#4944498)
So in theory, if a pill was developed to just kill that bacteria, fat guy loses weight.
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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by Steqheu on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:55PM (#4944767)
Maybe big pharma and the food industry knew this the whole time.
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