'Weight loss gut bacterium' found
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Researchers at the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium, worked with a single species of bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila. It normally makes up 3-5% of gut bacteria, but its levels fall in obesity.
Mice on a high fat diet - which led them to put on two to three times more fat than normal, lean, mice - were fed the bacteria.
The mice remained bigger than their lean cousins, but had lost around half of their extra weight despite no other changes to their diet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428
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