{"id":9187,"date":"2006-01-31T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/31\/the-obesity-virus.html"},"modified":"2006-01-31T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:24:20","slug":"the_obesity_vir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/the_obesity_vir.html","title":{"rendered":"The Obesity Virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obesity has been blamed on everything from weak will to genetics to internal body thermostats to the Evils of the McDonalds Corporation. But there’s some evidence that some obesity — and perhaps the “obesity epidemic” — may be caused by a virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is accumulating evidence that certain viruses may cause obesity, in essence making obesity contagious, according to Leah D. Whigham, the lead researcher in a new study, “Adipogenic potential of multiple human adenoviruses in vivo and in vitro in animals,” in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology published by the American Physiological Society.<\/p>\n

\nThe study, by Whigham, Barbara A. Israel and Richard L. Atkinson, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the human adenovirus Ad-37 causes obesity in chickens. This finding builds on studies that two related viruses, Ad-36 and Ad-5, also cause obesity in animals.<\/p>\n

\nMoreover, Ad-36 has been associated with human obesity, leading researchers to suspect that Ad-37 also may be implicated in human obesity. Whigham said more research is needed to find out if Ad-37 causes obesity in humans. One study was inconclusive, because only a handful of people showed evidence of infection with Ad-37 — not enough people to draw any conclusions, she said. Ad-37, Ad-36 and Ad-5 are part of a family of approximately 50 viruses known as human adenoviruses.<\/p>\n

Note that screening tests and vaccines, even if this pans out, are a long ways off. <\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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