digitaljournal Weight Loss is almost synonymous to an unwinnable battle. It is a basic knowledge that in order to reduce, one must eat less and exercise more, but in this day and age where your life is juggling job stress and family crises, the temptation of eating convenient fast and fatty foods encourages you to do the opposite. A healthy diet and regular exercise are certainly the best weapons against weight gain, but the fact is that sometimes they aren’t enough. And that’s where science may someday be able to help. In research laboratories around the country, researchers are studying closely at the biological mechanisms of obesity, finding the solution why some bodies store fat so readily, and why others are better at burning the calories they consume. They are discovering a surprising array of metabolic and physiologic factors that contribute to weight. Your intestines are teeming with bacteria that can either promote or curb weight gain. The type of hyperactive fat that is called brown fat which is abundant in newborns — that actually burns a lot of calories, unlike the traditional white fat that adults commonly store in their midsection. These and other findings about the biology of weight gain could be the answer to slimming our collective waistline, if scientists can someday use them to create better treatments for obesity. And we could use the help: in the decade between 1991 and 2000, the prevalence of overweight adults in the U.S. increased by 61%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, 30% of children in 30 states tipped the scales as either overweight or obese. “With hundreds of millions of obese people that we’ve got in our country now, physicians can’t treat them all,” says Dr. Michael Jensen, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. “We just don’t have enough physicians.” If the latest findings from obesity labs — in both humans and animals — prove as practical as they are promising, they could someday make the job of fighting obesity easier for physicians and patients, and help all of us get an extra boost from our diet and exercise programs. Answer to Weight Reduction Now Promises An Even Brighter Solution! is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →
