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Published online 20 December 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061218-6
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Fat people harbour 'fat' microbes
Your gut bacteria may help to determine your holiday weight gain.
The obese are often blamed for their own corpulence. But perhaps, just perhaps, some of the blame should be placed on another type of organism entirely: bacteria.
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