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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/the-fat-drug.html
http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/labs/blaserlab/v1-mbr_cho.html
The idea being that administering antibiotics in early childhood kills off the normal intestinal bacteria, which hampers the person's ability to digest food properly.
It is probably going to be a multiple factor issue: not enough enzymes to digest carbohydrates properly, matched with the loss of whatever intestinal helpers there might have been to pick up the slack, plus the increase of sugar or wheat or corn starch in every single processed food[1], plus the access to cars to get us everywhere easily. I suspect there might be a virus also (like there turned out to be a bacteria for ulcers - much against the "common sense" wisdom of the 80's) in the mix, but who knows.
On the other hand - I was given antibiotics early and (I think) often, but some of the things were really horrible (could have lost at least a leg), so - how do you not administer them for the things they work against?
[1] - seriously: I stopped buying the brand of salt my family has bought for three generations because it now has sugar as one of its ingredients (*really*? - salt needs sugar in it? - really?).
http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/labs/blaserlab/v1-mbr_cho.html
The idea being that administering antibiotics in early childhood kills off the normal intestinal bacteria, which hampers the person's ability to digest food properly.
It is probably going to be a multiple factor issue: not enough enzymes to digest carbohydrates properly, matched with the loss of whatever intestinal helpers there might have been to pick up the slack, plus the increase of sugar or wheat or corn starch in every single processed food[1], plus the access to cars to get us everywhere easily. I suspect there might be a virus also (like there turned out to be a bacteria for ulcers - much against the "common sense" wisdom of the 80's) in the mix, but who knows.
On the other hand - I was given antibiotics early and (I think) often, but some of the things were really horrible (could have lost at least a leg), so - how do you not administer them for the things they work against?
[1] - seriously: I stopped buying the brand of salt my family has bought for three generations because it now has sugar as one of its ingredients (*really*? - salt needs sugar in it? - really?).
