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Gut Bacteria Causes Weight Gain

laboratoryequipment.com — Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to new research at Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study was based on transplants of human intestinal microbes into germ-free.

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  • stonebear, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Little has been done to prove the hypothesis the title presents as fact, though it's what the researchers hope to establish. The article merely states they have gained the means to do so by accurately duplicating the human gut ecosystem in certain mice.

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