Catch Cold, Become Obese?

Watch CBS, Become Stupid. (a clear and truthful statement, no question)



What do you expect from a media "powerhouse" that does not know how to spell "contagious"? (note "Is Obesity Contageous?")

"Nikhil Dhurandhar, an associate professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., says the virus, known as AD-36, or the Adeno virus, infects the lungs, then whisks around the body, prompting fat cells to multiply and causing sore throats and coughs.

In one test, a-third of obese people had it, compared to 11 percent of thinner people.

Evidence in tests on mice and chickens points to the bug causing people to gain weight.

On The Early Show Tuesday, obesity expert Dr. Louise Aronne of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center told co-anchor Julie Chen, 'What this research shows is that a common cold virus can make people gain weight. This is a virus that people can get, and it's been shown to cause fat cells to reproduce, and it looks like what it does is it makes fat cells sort of suck fat into them. And that could make you gain more weight.

'I don't want people to be worried that they could actually catch it. We think that this is very, very uncommon. If anything, it may make you gain a little bit of weight. It's not that you're going to gain a tremendous amount of weight. But I think it shows that there's a lot of science to body weight regulation and obesity.'"

There is "science to body weight regulation and obesity" and none of it is grasped by this expert.

Perhaps his stupidity is due to a persistent viral infection.

"'We've actually seen patients who have a story that would be typical of having an infection and then they gain weight, sort of out of nowhere.'"

"Sort of out of nowhere" is the kind of explanation one would expect from a moron of this magnitude.

Far be it from being from more Calories in than out.

It is critically important for almost all weight loss experts to suspend the laws governing the rest of the universe.

Otherwise, they would be wrong.

"We treat it the exact same way we treat all problems with weight. Through diet, exercise, there are some medical treatments and surgery. So this does not change treatment at all. That's the problem."

That will always be "the problem."

There is no other way to lose weight except consuming fewer Calories than one burns.

"Aronne says the virus is active 'for about three months. So we think that, for a period of three months, you might be gaining weight. But we really -- it's still premature to determine how we would best treat this problem.

' ... If we are able to diagnose it and we don't routinely do that, although there are blood tests, we don't routinely diagnose it, the thing to do would be to try to remain weight stable while you have it because otherwise the weight gain would be permanent.'"

Too bad this Aronne character was active for more than three months after he was born and therefore able to spew this crap to an impressionable public.

Leave it to the MSM and the experts to get it wrong.