According to Dr. Dhurandhar from the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana, obesity is contagious!
Professor says a common cold virus can interfere with our normal body processes and make us fat - he has reached this rather astonishing conclusion following ten years of research with both animals and humans into the virus, Adenovirus-36. He believes it could be one of the mechanisms which cause some people to gain weight more quickly.
Professor Dhurandhar suggests the airborne “adenovirus” germ may be contributing to the obesity epidemic - the highly infectious cold-like virus is known to cause coughs, sore throats, diarrhoea and conjunctivitis.
Dr. Dhurandhar says the virus lingers for up to three months, during which time it multiplies fat and is contagious to others and is possibly encountered in early chilhood.
He also says while there are many other reasons why people become overweight, his research suggests that this virus goes to the lungs and spreads to various organs such as the liver, kidney, brain and fat tissue.
Obesity experts say the virus is not the reason why there is a major epidemic of obesity but may be instead a small contributing factor and all avenues must be explored but the basic message remains that people need to eat less and exercise more.
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