Healthy Recipe Doctor

What’s This About An Obesity Virus?

Have you heard anything about the research reported recently in the January
issue of the American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative, and
Comparative Physiology about the idea that certain viruses may be helping to
feed the obesity crisis. The research reported involved chickens injected
with one of the proposed obesity viruses. The injected chickens did
indeed develop 2 to 3 times more body fat than the chickens without the
injections (even though they ate the same chicken diet).

My take on this?

While this new research and scientific inquiry into possible obesity viruses
is fascinating and potentially very helpful in future decades, at this
moment in time, having a healthy lifestyle (healthy foods and regular
exercise) is our best defense against obesity. Virus or no virus, many of us
will predictably gain weight if we are sedentary and eating more calories
than we are burning.

~Elaine

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