WHO announced that there are already 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 disturbing speed; it has even reached worldwide outbreak sizes. Causes of obesity have been connected to over eating of food that are high in sugar and saturated fats that are animal-based, inactive way of life, and the changing eating patterns among cultures in highly urbanized areas around the globe.
Obesity is one of the many causes of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some type of cancer. Presently obesity has become one of the most public health concerns especially among developing countries.
If this issue is not resolved quickly, people will be at risk of fatal diseases because of obesity. Medical science around the world has continuously in search of scientific breakthroughs about obesity. This is in reply to the worldwide demand to alleviate health-related risk of obesity. A study in Albert Einstein College of Medicine's medical researchers has yet to be confirmed as one of the medical breakthroughs on obesity.
According to the research that maintaining the amount of fatty acids in the brain may be the treatment for obesity. Furthermore the study aims to modify the effects of molecular material malonyl CoA. This molecule is supposed to have been an influence on the actions of the hypothalamus, which in effect increases the hunger of an individual.
If the scientist can search for a way to alter the content of malonyl CoA in the brain, people will not crave anymore for a lot of food. This study is posing pledge to treat obesity to children and adults alike, though it is yet 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 stomach was being done among diabetic patients. This hormone, which is created naturally by the body sends message to the brain that the stomach is full.
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