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May 20, 2005
Now that is radical idea
I was reading mom's copy of Natural History Magazine yesterday before we went out to celebrate my birthday. The letters to the editor section were discussing an obesity article from the issue prior.A doctor wrote in with the idea that obesity might be caused by a pathogen. That might sound insane, but with ulcers caused by H Pylori and viruses suspected in causing cancer, this isn't as out there as it first seems.
So I did a bit of digging on the matter and it turns out they even have a suspect pathogen, the "adenovirus". It seems that in "a test of 500 humans showed that roughly 30 percent of obese people have antibodies to Ad-36, compared to only ten percent of non-obese people." Read more here.
Posted by OneEyedMan at May 20, 2005 8:51 AM
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