The Fat Problem

Dr. Alan M. Lake, chair of a task force on childhood obesity for the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has presented tips to prevent childhood obesity. Dr. David Katz of Yale Medical School reveals that this is happening for the first time that children are having less life expectancy than their parents are. Dr. Lake’s latest research may be helpful to restrict the growing problems of childhood obesity. This is 5, 2, 1 tips to reduce obesity in children. This advises parents to apply the tips on their children. 5 – Do have five fruits and vegetables per day. 2 – Spend only two hours on computer and television, combined. 1 – Do Exercise one hour per day.

Obese people are at twenty-five percent higher risk to develop psychiatric disorders. They may develop symptoms of depression, panic disorder and bipolar disorder. According to the researchers of US Group Health Center for Health Studies, the association works in both sides. The important thing is to understand its impact on health. The Archives of General Psychiatry has published the report. The researchers found further that the occurrence of incidence of depression among obese people is greater in social and cultural groups where obesity is less common.

A new research has revealed that normal-weight people usually eat more fiber and fruit than overweight or obese people do. The Journal of the American Dietetic Association has published the report of the researchers of the University of Texas-Austin. However, the researchers made a study on the groups of obese people and normal people. They found that persons of both groups were having same kinds of intakes of sugar, bread, dairy products and vegetables. The major difference was in the consuming of fiber foods. The normal-weight persons consume thirty-three percent more dietary fiber and forty-three percent more complex carbohydrates than obese people do every day.

Asthma is risky for pregnant women but the obesity in pregnant woman is more dangerous. The medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has published the report. Dr. Israel Hendler and his team said that if pregnant woman has obesity and asthma together, the obesity poses major health threat than asthma during pregnancy. Asthmatic women go through cesarean deliveries in most of the cases and more preeclampsia. This happens because of obesity not because of their asthma problem. They are more obese and not because of their asthma status. Hendler of Hutzel Hospital-Wayne State University, Detroit, and a multicenter team concluded the study. The researchers said, further, that more study is necessary on the various effects of obesity during pregnancy.

The things which are good for you heart, may be good for sexual life. According to the researchers of the Harvard University School of Public Health in Boston, to have healthy heart as well as to perform good sexual activities, you should do regular exercise, should maintain healthy weight and should not smoke. These all conditions may reduce the risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED). Obese people are more likely at the risk to develop erectile dysfunction (ED). The Journal of Urology has published the report. During the research, the researchers found that the people who were obese at the beginning of the study were ninety percent at the risk of developing ED than normal-weight men were. At the same time, smokers had a fifty percent more risk than non-smokers. Men who did the highest level of exercises at the start were thirty percent less probable to develop ED over the next 14 years. The blood vessel function becomes impair and blood flow may affect erectile function. The same impairment may cause heart disease too.

According to several researches on obesity, sleeping is going to be the latest weapon against obesity. The good sleep regulates appetite, body weight and risk of type 2 diabetes in adults and children both. Researchers of Quebec’s Laval University have found that youngsters who slept eight to ten hours per night had 3.5 times more risk of being obese than a similar group of children who slept 12 to 13 hours per night. The exact cause behind the impact of sleeping on body weight and development of diabetes is still unknown. There are some promising suspects such as leptin, ghrelin and cortisol hormones altered by lack of sleep and known to regulate appetite.

The researchers of Garvan Institute, sydney has claimed that P2, a fatty acid binding protein also present in the lung. It makes crucial to control inflammation in asthma and link it to obesity. Bennett Shum, who led the study on mice, used a technique called gene profiling to discover the genes. They found high levels of aP2 in human lung cells that had been tricked into thinking of undergoing an asthma attack. Bennett Shum said that the researchers had found that mice that had the gene removed were protected from asthma attacks. Obesity cause the three times risk of being asthmatic. The more obese, the bigger the risk. The August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation has published the report.

Now a days, trimming the fat has become a global problem. Health experts always advise to stay away from fattening food as well do exercise regularly. But now, there is no need to worry for all these, as a new vaccine has been developed to stay slim and eat whatever the obese people want to. According to VOA’s Melinda Smith, the new vaccine may provide some extra help by boosting your will power. Ghrelin is the hormone targeted by the vaccine. It stimulates the body to gain weight and store down the fat by slowing down the metabolism. During dieting, it responds by producing higher levels of hormones. According to Dr. Kim Janda, the vaccine slows weight gain and affects metabolism. It is still not found out whether the vaccine effect people with high-fat intake. Tips by Fabio Comana, of American Council on Exercise: 1. Have control on food you eat. 2. Be physically active. 3. Adopt active lifestyle. 4. Modify your behaviour in daily life.

According to a Sociology Professor of Purdue University, indulging in religious activities may lead to obesity. As believed by him, there is correlation between religious activity and body mass index, leading religious people to obese. As per his observations, southern churches of United States comprising of Baptists are found obese up to 27 per cent. It is due to the religious consciousness in people of southern US along with high calorie southern food also.

The rate of childhood obesity has doubled in 30 years, resulting in obese adults to be affected with serious diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart diseases and mental illness also. Parents play vital role in making their children obese. They provide child with junk food such as pizza, hamburger rather than vegetables. Beside eatables, they take obesity of child to be normal considering child has to be like that. The parents must be aware of the influence of obesity on child. Nutritious food must be the main priority of parents towards child. They must promote physical exercises and limit the time their child spend in front of TV and computer, helping them stay fit and active. The obesity of parents also impacts the child’s obesity to 60 percent. As quoted by Ivonne Gutierrez, center assistant with Head Start in Indianapolis: It affects their learning in a certain way. They have more difficulty. It could be that their minds are more into food than into school.