Microbes make the meal, new diet book proposes
Researcher skewers conventional thinking about weight loss
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GUT BUDDIES Diets rich in fast food can mess with people's gut bacteria. These microbes may play a bigger role in health problems such as obesity and diabetes than scientists once suspected.
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