I'm not fat, I'm big-boned! (1255 hits)
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Submitted by CookieLass (View user info) at 2006-12-21 09:31:11 EST
Or maybe you've got gut bacteria? Oh yes... there's a new excuse out there for morbidly obese people. Here's the link to the story, and I'll put it below for the people too lazy to click:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_he_me/diet_obesity_microbes
Researchers found a strong connection between obesity and the levels of certain types of bacteria in the gut. That could mean that someday there will be novel new ways of treating obesity that go beyond the standard advice of diet and exercise.
According to two studies being published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, both obese mice and people had more of one type of bacteria and less of another kind.
A "microbial component" appears to contribute to obesity, said study lead author Jeffrey Gordon, director of Washington University's Center for Genome Sciences.
Obese humans and mice had a lower percentage of a family of bacteria called Bacteroidetes and more of a type of bacteria called Firmicutes, Gordon and his colleagues found.
The researchers aren't sure if more Firmicutes makes you fat or if people who are obese grow more of that type of bacteria.
But growing evidence of this link gives scientists a potentially new and still distant way of fighting obesity: Change the bacteria in the intestines and stomach. It also may lead to a way of fighting malnutrition in the developing world.
"We are getting more and more evidence to show that obesity isn't what we thought it used to be," said Nikhil Dhurandhar, a professor of infection and obesity at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
"It isn't just (that) you're eating too much and you're lazy."
Dhurandhar wasn't part of the research, but said it may change the way obesity is treated eventually.
He said the field of "infectobesity" looks at obesity with multiple causes, including viruses and microbes. In another decade or so, the different causes of obesity could have different treatments. The current regimen of diet and exercise "is like treating all fevers with one aspirin," Dhurandhar said.
In one of the two studies in Nature, Gordon and colleagues looked at what happened in mice with changes in bacteria level. When lean mice with no germs in their guts had larger ratios of Firmicutes transplanted, they got "twice as fat" and took in more calories from the same amount of food than mice with the more normal bacteria ratio, said Washington University microbiology instructor Ruth Ley, a study co-author.
It was as if one group got far more calories from the same bowl of Cheerios than the other, Gordon said.
In a study of dozen dieting people, the results also were dramatic.
Before dieting, about 3 percent of the gut bacteria in the obese participants was Bacteroidetes. But after dieting, the now normal-sized people had much higher levels of Bacteroidetes — close to 15 percent, Gordon said.
"I think that gut bacteria affects body weight," said Virginia Commonwealth University pathology professor Richard Atkinson, who wasn't part of the research team and is president of Obetech Obesity Research Center in Richmond. "I don't think there's any doubt about that and they showed that."
The growing field of research puts more importance in the trillions of microbes that live in our guts and elsewhere, crediting it with everything from generations of people getting taller to increases in diabetes and asthma.
People are born germ-free, but within days they have a gut blooming with microbes. The microbes come from first foods — either breast milk or formula — the exterior environment, and the way the babies are born, said Stanford University medicine and microbiology professor David Relman, who was not part of the study.
For decades, doctors have treated bacteria in a "warlike" manner, yet recent research shows that "most encounters we have with microbes are very beneficial," Gordon said.
"Much of who we are and what we can do and can't do as human beings is directly related to microbial inhabitants," Relman said.
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Submitted by steph (user info) at 2007-04-30 00:11:23 EDT (#)
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Holy. What crawled up everyone's asses and died?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-12-22 19:38:46 EST (#)
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Oh yes... there's a new excuse out there for morbidly obese people"""
says a 200 pounds idiot who repeatedly claimed to be fit and have a perfect ass.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/88685
kill yourself
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2006-12-22 19:35:25 EST (#)
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This reminds me of Dennis Leary...rip off artist of the wonderful and fabulous Bill Hicks...
'crunch..munch..crunchcrunch'
'what are you doing?'
'crunch crunch crunch...I'm trying to keep the virus at bay...'
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-12-22 19:11:43 EST (#)
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screw the haters
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-12-22 08:29:12 EST (#)
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I could have sworn I linked #11 to this
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-12-21 21:38:22 EST (#)
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The bugs did it, man. I was out of town that day...
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2006-12-21 21:24:37 EST (#)
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Submitted by GMCrayon (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:33:34 (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/88685
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For some reason i really enjoy reading about all the shit that has happened here in the past.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2006-12-21 17:21:55 EST (#)
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You still have great eyes.
I'm going to take a nap now.
Submitted by big_z_1980 (user info) at 2006-12-21 15:50:22 EST (#)
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get un-fat:
eat less
move more
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-12-21 15:42:13 EST (#)
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No, you're fat.
PS. I'm not bothering to read this post.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-12-21 15:15:32 EST (#)
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fuck off
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-12-21 12:02:50 EST (#)
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Actually it's an atmospheric lensing phenomenon that just makes them APPEAR to be fat.
Submitted by FartSmeller (user info) at 2006-12-21 11:12:50 EST (#)
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Dinosaurs are "big boned". Fat people are just lazy.
Submitted by beauxjizzle (user info) at 2006-12-21 11:03:30 EST (#)
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i'd fuck you anyway
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:54:29 EST (#)
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Who cares how fat you are? You're hideously ugly, that's the biggest problem.
Submitted by GMCrayon (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:33:34 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/88685
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:28:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:25:31 EST (#)
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Wait, you mean that you're not the only one who gets yahoo too.
Submitted by GnarlsBarkley (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:18:47 EST (#)
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I didn't read the article, but I have only one comment regarding your title. It isn't possible to be big bonded... Have YOU ever seen a fat skeleton?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:17:01 EST (#)
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no
you're fat
and ugly
and a liar
and a cunt
now fuck off
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-12-21 10:09:35 EST (#)
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I actually have 75 pounds of those bacteria living in my GI tract. They'll die if I exercise and quit drinking beer. Really.
Submitted by vexx (user info) at 2006-12-21 09:51:52 EST (#)
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fat.
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2006-12-21 09:49:06 EST (#)
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To quote George Carlin - "You fat, dinosaurs are big boned!"
Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2006-12-21 09:39:22 EST (#)
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you're not big-boned , you're an empty-head.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2006-12-21 09:37:12 EST (#)
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The only thing more ironic would be if I posted this.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2006-12-21 09:33:31 EST (#)
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trust me cunt you're fat