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Re:Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scal... by cromulent on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:13AM (#5453888)
This research has been around for 30 years. There was one case in the 70's where obese adults were given controlled calculated diets in a hospital and one of them gained weight anyway as her gut flora was so good at extracting nutrients.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/05/10/3212802.ht...

Edit: Here's another link I found in one of my old comments from a week or two ago:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17183312

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Re:Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scal... by draven on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:22AM (#5453911)
Could it be that varied diets could prevent us (our intestinal bacteria) from getting too good at digesting a specific diet then?
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Re:Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scal... by crusso on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:16AM (#5454569)
Yeah, and Atkins was talking about the insulin response in the 1970's... but he was mostly ignored (if not ridiculed) by the research community.

The GP was entirely correct in stating that nutrition research has been "screwed up".

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