Brushing your teeth keeps you thin?

I just read a news article that I just had to share, along with a little commentary.

Here's the first paragraph of the article: "If you want to keep trim, forget the diet books and gym membership - you may be better off just brushing your teeth more often, according to a Japanese study." and here is the closing paragraph "We think actively encouraging the habit of tooth brushing would play a role in maintaining health and would help prevent obesity."

Are any of you thinking what I'm thinking? Could it just possibly be that people who take care of themselves, like brushing their teeth, just happen to be the same kind of person who takes care of the rest of their body?

So if you are overweight and don't brush your teeth then simply start brushing your teeth and you will start to lose weight? Fat chance. heh.

Maybe whether you brush your teeth, or not, is merely an indicator of the likelihood that you are overweight. Someone that doesn't brush their teeth may have other physical problems, simply because they don't have the mindset to take care of themselves. Not because the absence of brushing their teeth caused the problem.

Here's the real problem -- because of this "study" weightloss companies will start selling toothbrushes and wave the "study" in your face, and toothbrush manufacturers will gleefully start marketing their toothbrushes as a breakthrough in weightloss. Oh brother. Well, maybe they won't, but they might. :)