Antibiotics and obesity - are they linked

ContraryMaryMary
ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,786 Member
in Food and Nutrition
An interesting article in the NY Times which suggests a link between antibiotics and obesity. Food for thought.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/the-fat-drug.html?_r=0&referrer

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  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    No
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Interesting.

    How about a study that shows 100% of obese people drink water. Therefore water causes obesity.

    Yeah. Sounds as legit as the article.
  • MizzEngelChen
    MizzEngelChen Posts: 71 Member
    Interesting.

    How about a study that shows 100% of obese people drink water. Therefore water causes obesity.

    Yeah. Sounds as legit as the article.

    ^^ This.

    Excuses. Excuses everywhere
  • Charlottesometimes23
    Charlottesometimes23 Posts: 687 Member
    There's some interesting new research around the gut microbiome and this looks at it from another angle. Thanks for posting. I'm going to have a look for the original article because I would like to see what they propose as cause and effect.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I heard of that before. Who knows.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,009 Member
    I doubt it...
  • ahamm002
    ahamm002 Posts: 1,690 Member
    It's not that far fetched given that antibiotics can affect your gut bacteria, and certain gut bacteria are associated with obesity. It's definitely not a good reason to avoid antibiotics. Although it may be prudent to eat probiotics while you're on antibiotics, but we already knew that.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    I thought it was interesting and well balanced. It wasn't attempting to make excuses for anyone or anything. It wasn't a correlation=causation type of article at all. Worth a read IMHO.

    If antibiotics do affect our microbiomes, that's something that is important for us to know, right? This has potential impact on the health and growth of children as well as adults. It also points to interesting possibilities for future medicines as well.
  • tmaryam
    tmaryam Posts: 289 Member
    I thought it was interesting and well balanced. It wasn't attempting to make excuses for anyone or anything. It wasn't a correlation=causation type of article at all. Worth a read IMHO.

    If antibiotics do affect our microbiomes, that's something that is important for us to know, right? This has potential impact on the health and growth of children as well as adults. It also points to interesting possibilities for future medicines as well.

    Agreed.

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