Viral Infections May Be Linked To Obesity

This is not a brand new story but is of interest because it highlight s the complex nature of the problem. Contrary to much popular thinking that excessive weight is strictly a personal weakness, this story shows that specific types of viral infections ultimately lead to increased chance of weight gain in susceptible individuals. When researchers infected animal subjects with a human virus known as Human Adenovirus -36, they reported measurable increases in the infected animals' body fat and the visceral fat that surrounds the organs deep within the belly. In addition, studies also demonstrated that infection with Ad-36 and the resulting weight gain could be transmitted from infected animals to uninfected animals. There are numerous articles on this topic and here are two:

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