August 14, 2006

Virus Borg Make You Fat

Did you know that most of your body-weight is not human? Great story in yesterday's New York Times about gut microflora and how it may effect obesity.

-- Compliments of Chai-Rista on the poop-chute beat!

Posted by Chai-Rista at August 14, 2006 12:26 PM | TrackBack
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If most of your bodyweight were non-human, you would be one sick individual. Flora make up about 2 - 4 pounds of your weight.

There are about an order of magnitude more bacterial cells than there are human cells in a human body, though.

Posted by: John at August 17, 2006 12:11 PM