New news from the world of weight loss research suggests that microbes and digestive bacteria may determine the size of your stomach. In the research hat was published in Nature, a scientific journal it was seen that obese mice and obese people were likely to have more of 1 specific type of bacteria and a smaller amount of another bacteria. The researchers therefore are saying that there is a ‘microbial component’ that may add to an obesity problem in a person.

The head of the study a certain Jeffrey Gordon who works at the Washington University's Centre for Genome Sciences said that a there was smaller percentage of Bacteroidetes bacteria and a bigger percentage of Firmicutes bacteria in obese men and women.

The research is still at an early stage and the researchers could not confirm if the Firmicutes bacteria was responsible for making people fat or whether it was the obesity itself that was causing the abundance of this bacteria but the fact that there are different amounts means that the link needs to be studied more and some possible weight loss knowledge and possibly a diet remedy may be the result of the research.

The researchers also felt that the study may even offer ways of beating malnutrition in the third world. The more work that is done on obesity research the more scientists have new avenues of curing the obesity problem and in view of the fact that obesity is now a serious global problem money is pouring into all weight loss ideas and obesity cures.

The researchers experimented with transplanting different amount of the two bacteria into the stomachs of the mice and the humans and saw that by doing this they could affect the way that people took in calories. The results have the scientists very excited about the possibility of further research and about a possible blockbusting weight loss cure.