Obesity Facts

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According to researchers, high fat diet can disturb our biological clock. Researchers of Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that high fat diet not only results in overweight condition but could also affect the balance of circadian rhythms (i.e. 24-hour biological clock).
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A recent study provides the first DNA link between the tumors and the obesity. In this study it was found that people with a genetic variation in fat cells may have some protection against developing colon cancer.
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According to Professor Hiroyasu Iso, MD, Osaka University,” Behavior is directly linked to Obesity”. A report published in British Medical journal puts light on the fact that habits of eating quickly until the feeling of fullness can increase the risk of obesity.
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US researchers revealed that eating too much creates the brain go haywire, prompting a cascade of harm that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ills.
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in mice that an immature or “baby,” fat cells prowl in the walls of the blood vessels that nurture fatty tissue, just waiting for additional calories to assist them cultivate into the adult monsters responsible for packing on the extra pounds.
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Now day’s obesity emerges as a biggest problem in the world. It turned to be a more serious as it can result in other health disorders such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. It also has been found that it also raises the risk of LDL “bad” cholesterol levels, elevated triglycerides and high blood pressure.
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If you have an active lifestyle then you can fight from obesity very easily even if the problem is hereditary. According to previous studies if you have two or more copies of FTO genes then your chance to become obese increases significantly. But according to a new research, you do not have to fear from this problem as physical activity can blunts the fat gene effect.
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Experts say that as we age, our weight also grows simultaneously. It is very important to stay active as we get older. When we grow old, the body response it acting as a combination of muscle reduction and discovering quantitative calories.

Julie Schwartz, a dietitian at the Emory University School of Medicine says, ‘As we are growing, it is a possibility to reduce little bit of muscle mass every after 10 years which depicts that our metabolism climbs down. The reduction in metabolism states that the lifestyle has to be changed right away otherwise we will have to get ready to collect mass in our body.’ Those pounds land is influenced by several factors.
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Studies recommended that those people who as a child suffer from either ear inflammation (infection) or surgically lost tonsils are more prone to have obesity in young age. Research displays a powerful connection between fatty foods and the destruction to taste nerves caused by chronic ear infections.
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Researchers have claimed that it is not at all important that obese people will get connected to heart diseases as it highly depends on which body organ the fat is going to accumulate. Dr Norbert Stefan, University of Tubingen, Germany, reported that a metabolically benign obesity exists in human body and 25% of obese people. The earlier studies indicated that visceral fat which is accumulated in the abdomen is connected with the risk of diabetes and heart disease. It reveals that it is less likely to occur in the obese people as Stefan et al discovered the quantity of visceral fat was a strong signal of insulin resistance with balanced weight.

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