It seems that every day we are discovering more about the role of microbes to our health. We really have to revise our definition of what a human (or any other animal or plant) is: we are not just a creatures of 10,000,000,000,000 cells containing the DNA we got from mother and father. We have […]
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Obesity: the role of the immune system
By Iddo on April 25th, 2010
Obesity is one symptom of several, which together constitute what is now termed metabolic syndrome. Morbid obesity is also associated with a host of other symptoms including high blood sugar, high blood lipids, insulin resistance and liver disorders. The root causes of which are traced back to excessive food consumption, reduced physical activity and in […]
