Follow Your Gut
More here (via that most exquisite aggregator of interesting things, 3 quarks daily).The guts of all kinds of animals, from flies to humans, are laden with bacteria and other microscopic passengers. This ‘microbiome’ acts as a hidden organ. It includes trillions of genes that outnumber those of their hosts by hundreds of times. They affect our health, influencing the risk of obesity and chronic diseases. They affect our digestion, by breaking down chemicals in our food that we wouldn’t normally be able to process. And, at least in flies, they can alter sexual preferences, perhaps even contributing to the rise of new species.
Oh great! Now some Evangelical wingnut will decide that gays can be "cured" by forcing them on the same diet women eat.
I'm just kidding, of course BUT given some of the idiocy that's come from that source . . .
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"The Ex-Gay Diet." Brilliant.
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