Thursday 23 August 2012

Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity?

Just what we need... yet another anti-medicine headline. I'll go ahead and invoke the rule [wikipedia.org]: No.

Look, parents... it's not the antibiotics making your kids fat, it's you feeding them too much, then telling them to clean their plate because kids in Africa are starving. It's not the antibiotic-resistant superbugs making your kids sick, it's the day care center and school you send them to with myriad other kids and their bacterial cornucopia. It's not the vaccines giving your kids learning disabilities, it's the school's beancounters putting pressure on the psychiatrist to get those special-education dollars.

It's not that hard to live a healthy and decent life: Do not do anything to excess, and listen to what your body wants. When it wants rest, rest. When it wants exercise, do something active. When it wants food, eat. Do nothing more than what's reasonable, and do nothing less than what's sufficient.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/MSsw2MSHKlg/do-antibiotics-contribute-to-obesity

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