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2007-10-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by lotp 2007-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Everyone has a vast community of microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to chocolate's allure.

That may be the case for other foods, too. The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study. It appears Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Proteome Research.

Posted by KBK 2007-10-14 11:57|| 2007-10-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#2 In that the bacteria in the human body outweigh the cells of the human body, we are essentially ambulatory cultures. Imagine if you could eliminate all but essential bacteria from your system? You might be a whole lot lighter.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-14 13:44|| 2007-10-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#3 so, maybe I'm not overweight, my bacteria is? I like it

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-14 14:01|| 2007-10-14 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, how far we have fallen to be blaming lowly bacteria for our epidemic of obesity. What's next, blaming mental disorders on strange quarks?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-14 14:15|| 2007-10-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Can you prove there's no connection, Zenster? Besides, can you think of a better reason (besides water-borne brain parasites) for Muslim Mob Madness?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-14 15:02|| 2007-10-14 15:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, there seems to be a connection between an as-yet unfound virus and gross obesity, not bacteria. So there!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-14 15:03|| 2007-10-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

#7 well there's the inbreeding of poor gene stock issue...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-14 15:03|| 2007-10-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought we were blaming McDonalds.

I'm so confused! I better go have some more chocolate cake.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-10-14 15:10|| 2007-10-14 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Besides, can you think of a better reason (besides water-borne brain parasites) for Muslim Mob Madness?

All joking aside, I think that Frank's mention of extensive inbreeding is on the money. Somewhere in Arab DNA are genes governing a propensity for violence and susceptibility to external suggestion. Long ago it must have become quite apparent to the Muslim elite that reinforcing these traits protected the continued status quo of Islam's power structure. By nurturing xenophobia and encouraging marriage between cousinsdespite the obvious drawbacks of consaguinitythey entrenched pliability and aggression to the point where it is now congenital. In this respect, Islam may well represent a massive socio-political eugenics program. If all of this is true, it bodes particularly ill for any chance of rehabilitating Muslim cultures. Such a genetic basis for their behavior would make them the psycho-social equivalent of a medically healthy AIDS carrier.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-14 15:43|| 2007-10-14 15:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Cousin marriage works well for preserving property ownership and oligarchical power structure, and protects the group from pollution by outsiders. Historically the worst gene combinations would have died in childhood, and clan feuding would have culled the most stupid and mentally deranged of the remainder, a practical application of the "don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy the bear is chasing" theory of selection.

The propensity for violence and susceptibility to suggestion is common in societies where the gods are capricious. Ponder the pagan mobs destroying Jewish and Christian communities in the first and second century Roman empire, even as their gods were being redefined; and Christian mobs turning on Jewish and pagan communities in the third and fourth, while the barbarians attacked from beyond the borders; Christian mobs burning down Jewish ghettos because of rumors of well-poisoning during the Black Plague years; Hindu mobs in India; and, Muslim mobs because somewhere someone may have laughed at Mohammed, or treated a Muslim as other than lord and master, or a kaffir dared to touch a Koran, or... (I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, but my knowledge of history is limited)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-14 16:22|| 2007-10-14 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 ask the Saudis about the numbers with screwed up birth defects (but not the royal family - we don't discuss that)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-14 16:49|| 2007-10-14 16:49|| Front Page Top

#12 The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study.

Um, is it just me or does this study only cover chocolate? No mention of binge-eating of McDonald's ("biggie sized please") every stinkin' day, as well as grease-laced meals and mandatory sweet tea and desserts. Mix in a good dose of "I'm not do nuttin, except sittin' here watchin' my 110" plasma HDTV, surf the net (sorry fellow, burgers, about that one) or play PS3/Xbox all stinkin' day" and you have the current obesity "crisis" we have today. No wonder there's kids that weigh more than me in 3rd grade.

It's called self-control and exercise folks. And, I won't charge you $2 million for that study, that's for sure! I did find it interesting that it took them an extra year just to find 11 guys that didn't eat chocolate *snicker*, as well as the results that those eating chocolate had lower levels of the "bad" cholesterol.

Another snickers, anyone?

Posted by BA 2007-10-14 17:13|| 2007-10-14 17:13|| Front Page Top

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