Are you prone to obesity? The clues are in your gut bacteria
Financial Times, October 6, 2016
The microbiome is currently becoming one of the most popular medical research areas, assumed to hold the key to various health issues. Two recently published studies for example, are currently giving clues on how gut bacteria may be directly connected to the growing problem of obesity. The first paper, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism showed that lean children and young teens had a different mix of gut microbiota than their obese peers. Another clue about obesity came from a paper published in Genome Biology that associated the gut microbiome with the amount of visceral fat in the body — the fat that sits around the organs in the abdominal cavity and has been linked to metabolic diseases such as diabetes and arteriosclerosis.