Study: Roundworm infection could help quell obesity, diabetes

“In the study researchers tested the effect of nematode infection on mice fed a high-fat diet. Infected mice of normal girth gained 15 percent less weight than those that were not infected. Mice that were already obese when infected lost roughly 13 percent of their body weight within 10 days.”

Read more at EurekAlert.

10 thoughts on “Study: Roundworm infection could help quell obesity, diabetes”

  1. Well, but consider this. If researchers can figure out how to harness something benign from the nematode information, there might be valuable therapies. It won’t be the nematodes themselves, of course.
    It happens sometimes that these parasites wind up in the lungs also, causing a disease called parasitic husk.

  2. there was a british guy who deliberately infected himself with roundworms.

    His reason, he wanted to get rid of his grass allergy problem (he was allergic to grass, round worm cured him off it)

  3. The important thing is that fat people are the only group you can persecute and victimize, and not only get away with it, but be praised for doing so.

    A parasitic infection may well be better than persecution.

  4. Is having fat on your body really so ‘terrible’ that a parasitic infection and the potential health problems of a parasitic infection are justified?!

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