Imagine your child is entering kindergarten. You take her to get her shots: Polio, flu . . . and obesity?
According to new research published in the International Journal of Obesity (yes, they have a whole academic journal focusing just on issues of fat people), a virus could potentially be one reason some people are extremely fat.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison found that mice and chickens started packing on the pounds when they were infected with a human virus with the sexy name of adenovirus-36.