Our Guts Could Be Harboring The Culprits And Cures For Obesity

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Obesity in the United States is reaching ever more alarming proportions, posing a severe menace to public health and exacerbating a crisis in health care costs both domestically and worldwide.

Now, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown and fellow researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, in collaboration with Dr. John DiBaise and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, are looking into what may be a leading driver in body weight regulation - the diverse zoo of microorganisms inhabiting the human gut.

What guts do harbor that is the culprit for obesity are the too many Calories shoved into mouths.