At a lab in Massachusetts Institute
of Technology they made a break through discovery. Eric Alm and Susan Erdman theorized
that probiotiics—found in yogurt—help weight loss and sex appeal. To test their
theory they gave a set of mice junk food, regular food, and regular food with
mouse size portions of yogurt. One of the first thing they noticed about the
mice that were given the probiotics; was they had shinier and thicker fur and
were slimmer than the other mice. This wasn’t
the only thing that set a part the yogurt eating mice from their siblings. The male
mice had “swagger”. “We knew there was something different in the males, but we
weren’t sure what it was at first,” Erdman said. “You know when someone’s at
the top of their game, how they carry themselves differently? Well, imagine
that in a mouse.” Later a lab technician notice that their testicles were
protruding out farther. It turns out their testicles were 5
percent bigger than those eating regular food, and 15 percent bigger than those
of mice on a diet designed to mimic “junk food” in humans. And in this case,
bigger was better. “Almost everything about the fertility of those males is
enhanced,” Erdman said. She explained how yogurt-eating males mated faster and
produced more offspring. “There were legitimate physiological differences in
males fed probiotics, not just the extra sexiness.”And let’s not forget the
ladies. Female mice that ate yogurt were even shinier than the males and tended
to be better moms to their larger litters. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/31021731/detail.html
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