Is Gut Bacteria More Important than Calories When it Comes to Body Weight?

Sunday, July 03, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

A new Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is helping to clarify which foods contribute to weight gain – with some surprising results.  The study includes 120,000 men and women from three large cohorts followed for 12-20 years. The study shows that inactivity is not a good thing and then sleeping less than 6 hours or more than 8 is also trouble. But the news-generating headlines have come from the foods that either did or didn’t cause weight gain. Regular consumption of yogurt turned out to the most helpful of all foods – not because of calories but because of friendly flora in the yogurt.

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