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Abstract
Obesity has become one of the most prevalent health issues of our time.According to a 2012 WHO report,around 3.4 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese[1].Humans are in fact superorganisms composed of both human and microbial cells with 2 sets of genes,those encoded in