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Abuse of antibiotics leads to obesity
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According to a note published in the journal New Scientist, the abuse of antibacterial drugs can be an impetus to the development of obesity, reports The Epoch Times. It is likely that this is due to the familiar circumstance that drugs reduce the number of beneficial microflora in the gastrointestinal tract. This microflora, among all the rest, prevents the development of obesity.
Studies in laboratory mice have demonstrated that the use of antibiotics forces animals to gain weight. It is also known that antibiotics are used to feed animals planned for slaughter.
Researchers from the Institute of New York fed antibiotics to rodents with short courses. The test animals had the lowest values of T-lymphocytes, which are responsible for immune responses. What provoked obesity. And scientists from Denmark found that children who took antibiotics for 6 months after birth were more likely to overweight for the next 7 years.
Antibiotics are often called provocateurs of various complications and negative changes in the body. Thus, some antibiotics adversely affect bacteria that live in the intestinal tract and are associated with bronchial asthma. In the gastrointestinal tract, about a trillion microbes live.
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