Friday, October 30, 2009

Medical Breakthroughs on Obesity

By Jason Myers

WHO reported that there are presently 1 billion adults who are overweight and 300, 000 of them are identified as obese. The growing number of overweight and obese people has increased at an alarming rate; it has even arrived at global epidemic proportions. Reasons of obesity have been linked to over consumption of food that are rich in sugar and saturated fats that are animal-based, inactive lifestyle, and the altered eating patterns among cultures in highly urbanized areas around the globe.

Obesity is one of the many forces of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases and certain kinds of cancer. Today obesity has become one of the most known medical issues specifically among developing countries.

If this problem is not resolved quickly, people will be at risk of deadly diseases due to obesity. Medical science the world over has continuously in research of medical breakthroughs about obesity. This is in response to the global demand to alleviate health-connected risk of obesity. A research in Albert Einstein College of Medicine's medical researchers has yet to be confirmed as one of the medical advancements on obesity.

According to the research that keeping the amount of fatty acids in the brain can be the cure to obesity. Moreover the study aims to change the effects of molecular substance malonyl CoA. This molecule is believed to have been an effect on the performance of the hypothalamus, which as a result increases the hunger of a person.

If the scientist can search for a way to alter the content of malonyl CoA in the brain, people will not crave anymore for so much food. This research is posing promise to cure obesity to children and adults alike, although it is still to be experimented on humans.

Medical scientists from Imperial College have discovered a way to suppress the hunger for food among humans. Injecting a drug that enhances the oxyntomodulin content in the abdomen was being done in diabetic patients. This hormone, which is produced naturally by the body sends out anote to the brain that the stomach is full.

About the Author: