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Bacteria may cause type 2 diabetes
Pictured: Staphylococcus aureus | Bacteria May Cause Type II Diabetes: "Obesity is a known risk factors for developing Type 2 diabetes, but obesity also alters a person's microbiome - the ecosystem of bacteria that colonize our bodies and affect our health. 'What we are finding is that as people gain weight, they are increasingly likely to be colonized by staph bacteria - to have large numbers of these bacteria living on the surface of their skin,' Schlievert says. 'People who are colonized by s