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Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness[1]
Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry[2] ; Nutrition / Diet[3] ; Genetics[4]
Article Date: 06 Sep 2013 - 8:00 PDT
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Healthy diet discourages obesity microbes in gut
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When you dine, you are never alone. Trillions of microbial guests, resident in your gut, eat with you. They help digest your food and convert it into energy and fat.
Now, new research suggests changing the mix of gut microbes can prevent obesity, but only if combined with a healthy diet.
This was the conclusion of a study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, as reported in the journal Science on September 6th.
The study reveals another clue about the intimate ties between gut bacteria and diet in the development of obesity[5] .
'Lean' gut microbes and healthy diet
The researchers bred mice in a sterile environment so they had no gut microbes of their own. Then, they took gut microbes from human twins - where one twin was lean and the other obese - and transplanted them to the mice.
Mice receiving the obesity-related gut microbes gained weight and fat, and developed obesity-related metabolic problems, while the mice that received the leanness-related gut microbes did not.
Researchers then paired up the mice so that the ones with microbes from the lean human twin were put in the same cages as mice with gut microbes from the obese twin.
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