Just because I thought this little comic strip from GeekCulture.com was cute and quite appropriate, I wanted to share. With all the talk about obesity being contagious, are your friends making you fat or are you the one making your friends fat? Now that is the real question... Read more

A CNN.com reported a recent study by the University of Washington's Center for Genome Sciences has found that "microbial component" appears to contribute to obesity. Basically researchers found that obese humans had a lower percentage of a family of bacteria called Bacteroidetes and more of a type of bacteria called Firmicutes in the gut. What is still unclear is if the Firmicutes grow as a Read more