Obesity Research – What Drives the Effort

Obesity increases a person’s risk for gallstone formation, high
blood pressure and diabetes, as well as cancers of the breast,
endometrium, colon, kidney, and oesophagus. These are some of
the reasons why world health officials are putting more money
into obesity research and making sure that they get the
information that they need to provide us with new ways to battle
the new worldwide epidemic that is evolving. Obesity research is
crucial in telling us what the root causes of obesity are and
how we can tackle it.

Current and past medical research has shown us that obesity
isn’t entirely due to unhealthy living; it is also influenced by
our DNA. People who have had members of their family that have
suffered from being overweight or obese will be at a high risk
level of suffering the same problems and therefore need to take
extra steps to help prevent that from happening.

Although genetics play a part in obesity, research and common
sense strongly suggest that unhealthy living- overeating and
insufficient exercise – also plays a major part when it comes to
obesity. To burn fat we need to burn more than we take in. If we
do not exercise then we don’t burn fat, therefore inevitably we
will end up first overweight, then obese. (You are considered to
be obese if you are more than 20 percent over your ideal
weight.) Research helps us to know more about the complexities
of obesity. Yet, there is so much more for researchers to
explore, more time and investment needs to put be into obesity
research so we can find more conclusive solutions to battling
obesity.

The fact is, even though obesity is on its way to becoming the
leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., AIDS, another
cause of preventable death, receives about 5 times more research
funding than obesity.

Obesity causes major health problems and researches have made
note that unless the situation is addressed we may face a major
worldwide problem due to obesity. It is a major complication in
terms of operations as many doctors and consultants will not
anaesthetize any one who is grossly overweight as this is
extremely unsafe. More important medical problems can’t be
solved or helped when obesity is a problem.

Continued obesity research is important. In addition, the
information we do have needs to be better disseminated – far to
many people are grappling with the problem of being overweight
and loosing the struggle and turning obese. Research findings
should be made available in the form of books, television
adverts, leaflets and school topics. An estimated 127 million
adults in the United States alone are overweight or obese.
Surely we can do better.

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