Scientists claim that obesity is a contagious disease.
Not too pleasant discovery made the Western scholars dealing with problems of excess weight. Obesity, it turns out, is contagious.
You can exhaust yourself with workouts in the gym and diets but nothing it will not help to preserve a slender figure, if the body penetrate the bacteria, causing obesity.
So, according to the latest data of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in the microflora of people who are inclined to excess weight live bacteria, which are responsible for it. But the worst thing is that these microorganisms are able to migrate from one host to another, thus triggering a series of chain reactions, which lead to weight gain.
These bacteria “nest” in the digestive tract of people who are prone to obesity and form spores that can live outside the human body. Subsequently, the “seed” and cause weight gain and obesity, disrupting the microflora of the person, if enter the body of another person.
All this means that the extra weight is not just genetics and unhealthy lifestyle, but and microflora.
However, the scientists who made the discovery, said that it, definitely there are benefits. Soon they will be engaged in the study of the genome of these bacteria and will conduct experiments on animals.
According to them, if successful, it will be possible to talk about the opening of a new “era” in the treatment of people and to utilize specific beneficial bacteria.
