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To: Lane3 who wrote (61938)	4/26/2008 10:25:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

I can guess right now at what causation might be. The products of digestion, and the interaction with commensal bacteria and other organisms, is not well understood. The essential products of the gut involve micronutrients and metabolite breakdown products that are absorbed during normal digestion- mess around with that digestion, and soon a human is not getting what they need to survive. Since doctors do not completely understand what humans require for survival, it's going to be a while before they discover what nutritional disruption is resulting in death- but I'd be willing to wager it is a nutritional problem. I'd let the actuaries loose on this one. I'd be willing to offer a percentage of the cost savings to the over weight participants. If there isn't a cost savings, I wouldn't advocate there be a program- but I suspect there would be a cost savings once you run the numbers.