Monday, January 26, 2009

Can a common virus make you fat?

Can a common virus make you fat?"One doctor in the US believes that a common cold virus can interfere with our normal body processes and make us fat. For the past ten years, Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar from Louisiana has been carrying out animal and human studies on the virus, Adenovirus-36. He believes it could be one of the mechanisms causing some people to put on weight more quickly" - BBC

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