ANTIBIOTIC FAT FACTOR STUDY

Antibiotics and obesity could be related by the drugs' ability to wipe out beneficial bacteria in the gut that could play a role in nutrient and calorie absorption. "By using antibiotics, we found we can actually manipulate the population of bacteria and alter how they metabolize certain nutrients," explains Ilseung Cho, MD, MS assistant professor of medicine and gastroenterology at New York University School of Medicine.

The Antibiotics–Fat Factor (study)
In the latest study, researchers found that changing the natural gut flora in mice by administering low-dose antibiotics resulted in a 10 to 15 percent higher fat mass six weeks later compared to that of mice that didn't receive the drugs. The antibiotic dose also threw off the animals' metabolism hormones, raising concerns that antibiotics in humans could be implicated in medical conditions like childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Over prescribing of these drugs that is so common and their use in livestock and animals have come at quite a cost. Scientists already know that using low-dose antibiotics to raise beef, turkey, chicken, and pork-producing animals more quickly for market has led to a huge spike in antibiotic-resistant, hard-to-kill infections.
In fact, those infections kill more people a year in the U.S. than AIDS.

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For that reason alone, it's in your best interest to avoid antibiotics in meat. The latest research suggests you should avoid unnecessary courses of antibiotics from the pharmacy, too.

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