High use of antibiotics overlaps with obesity rates in the Midwest and South - KansasCity.com

High use of antibiotics overlaps with obesity rates in the Midwest and South - KansasCity.com: Research now hints that the stout among us tend to hail from the same places — including chubbier-than-most Missouri and Kansas — where antibiotic drug use is highest. Whether the germ-fighting drugs make us fat or our obesity leads us to pop more antibacterial pharmaceuticals makes for difficult unraveling.