Antibiotic use has grown along with obesity. Coincidence? (USA)

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We?ve all heard that the overuse of antibiotics is making them less effective and fueling the rise of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. But did you know it may also be fueling the rise of obesity, diabetes, allergies and asthma?

So says Dr. Martin Blaser, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist at New York University Langone Medical Center who studies the myriad bacteria that live on and in our bodies. He explains his theory in a commentary published in Thursday?s edition of the journal Nature.

http://www.latimes.com/health/boost...sity-asthma-diabetes-20110824,0,4185617.story
 
Interesting , especially as i had been on lots of anti biotics just before because of a throat infection .
 
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