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01-04-2014, 10:13 PM
Imbalances in the microbial community in your intestines may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes. What does science say about how to reset our bodies?
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff (https://www.motherjones.com/authors/moises-velasquez-manoff) Mon Apr. 22, 2013 2:00 AM GMT
A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona (https://medicine.buffalo.edu/faculty/profile.html?ubit=dandona), a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's (https://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/4/682.long)—specifically breakfast. Over several mornings, he fed nine normal-weight volunteers an egg sandwich with cheese and ham, a sausage muffin sandwich, and two hash brown patties.
Dandona is a professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo who also heads the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, and what he observed has informed his research ever since. Levels of a C-reactive protein, an indicator of systemic inflammation, shot up "within literally minutes." "I was shocked," he recalls, that "a simple McDonald's meal that seems harmless enough"—the sort of high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal that 1 in 4 Americans eats regularly—would have such a dramatic effect. And it lasted for hours. ...
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https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss?page=1
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This Is Your Body on Microbes (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/bacteria-in-human-body)
Should You Take a Probiotic? (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/should-you-take-probiotics-supplement)
Poop Therapy: More Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Fecal Transplants (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/what-is-fecal-transplant-difficile-bacteria)
Can Antibiotics Make You Fat? (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/can-antibiotics-make-you-fat)
Antibiotics As Key to Curing Starvation (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/02/can-antibiotics-cure-hunger)
Why You Shouldn't Take Antibiotics for a Sinus Infection (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/sinus-infections-antibiotics-resistance)
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff (https://www.motherjones.com/authors/moises-velasquez-manoff) Mon Apr. 22, 2013 2:00 AM GMT
A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona (https://medicine.buffalo.edu/faculty/profile.html?ubit=dandona), a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's (https://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/4/682.long)—specifically breakfast. Over several mornings, he fed nine normal-weight volunteers an egg sandwich with cheese and ham, a sausage muffin sandwich, and two hash brown patties.
Dandona is a professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo who also heads the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, and what he observed has informed his research ever since. Levels of a C-reactive protein, an indicator of systemic inflammation, shot up "within literally minutes." "I was shocked," he recalls, that "a simple McDonald's meal that seems harmless enough"—the sort of high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal that 1 in 4 Americans eats regularly—would have such a dramatic effect. And it lasted for hours. ...
read the rest on MotherJones
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss?page=1
More MoJo coverage of bacteria and health:
This Is Your Body on Microbes (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/bacteria-in-human-body)
Should You Take a Probiotic? (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/should-you-take-probiotics-supplement)
Poop Therapy: More Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Fecal Transplants (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/what-is-fecal-transplant-difficile-bacteria)
Can Antibiotics Make You Fat? (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/can-antibiotics-make-you-fat)
Antibiotics As Key to Curing Starvation (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/02/can-antibiotics-cure-hunger)
Why You Shouldn't Take Antibiotics for a Sinus Infection (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/sinus-infections-antibiotics-resistance)