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 rate; it has even reached global outbreak proportions. Causes of obesity have been linked to over consumption of food that are high in sugar and saturated fats that are animal-based, sedentary lifestyle, and the altered eating guides among cultures in highly urbanized cities around the globe.
Obesity is one of the many reasons of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases and certain kinds of cancer. Presently obesity has become one of the most public health issues specifically among developing countries.
If this problem is not resolved right away, people will be at risk of deadly diseases due to obesity. Medical science around the world has continuously in search of medical breakthroughs about obesity. This is in response to the global need to alleviate health-connected risk of obesity. A research in Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s medical researchers has yet to be proven as one of the medical breakthroughs on obesity.
According to the study that maintaining the amount of fatty acids in the brain may be the treatment for obesity. Furthermore the research aims to change the effects of molecular material malonyl CoA. This molecule is supposed to have been an influence on the performance of the hypothalamus, which in effect improves the hunger of an individual.
If the scientist can found a way to change the amount of malonyl CoA in the brain, people will not crave anymore for a lot of food. This research is posing pledge to cure obesity to children and adults in a similar way, though it is yet to be experimented on humans.
Medical researchers from Imperial College have found a way to reduce the hunger for food among people. Injecting a drug that enhances the oxyntomodulin level in the stomach was being done among diabetic patients. This hormone, which is created naturally by the body sends out anote to the brain that the stomach is full.
