Original sentence: "Can You 'Catch' Obesity."Could Fat Be Catching.By no means can the AD-36 virus be solely held responsible for obesity, nor do those catching it automatically gain weight, there are many factors to consider when talking about human obesity: exercise, eating habits, other medical conditions, etc.Human testing has not been committed on grounds of research ethics.The "fat virus" theory has been met with a large degree of scepticism, and is being considered "junk science" or a "cop-out" for obese people to blame their condition on.The AD-36 virus has been observed to increase the amount of body fat on laboratory animals, an effect that has been duplicated on chickens and monkeys.The Fat Virus.The so-called fat virus is a theory that obesity in humans and other animals might have a viral source
Edited sentence: <u>The Fat Virus Myth<u>.The so-called "fat virus" is essentially US junk science which has been used to demonstrate that obesity is due to a virus, rather than over eating, lack of exercise or so on.This has, as is the nature of all junk science, been met with a total lack of scientific proof and is generally regarded as a nonsense