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Weight management is a challenge. Technology has led to a sedentary lifestyle; instead of physical activity, a large majority of Americans spend their time in front of a screen, lending to an unhealthy epidemic – obesity. A new study says that eating a good breakfast and not snacking throughout the day can lead to a healthier life and prevent weight gain.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 36.5% of adults and about 17% of children in the United States live with obesity. Obesity has been shown to increase the risk of developing serious conditions and diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes and even cancer.
As American waistlines expand, so does the cost of obesity – both for the government and the individuals. According to an article in Policito published in March 2017, “There are the direct medical costs of treating obesity-related diseases including Type-2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, arthritis, and related cancers, among others. And then there are the indirect costs: lost productivity, more illness, extra infrastructure to handle heavier patients and residents.” Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index reports that extra healthcare costs from obesity were $538 million in 2016, more than half of the budget of the city’s public school system.
The national costs are shocking. Professor at Emory University, Zhou Yang, who studies the impact of obesity on the medical system, has reported the obese older males spent $190,657 more on lifetime healthcare expenses than their normal weight peers; while older obese women spent $224,629 more.
A new study, conducted by Dr. Hana Kahleova from the Loma Linda University School of Public Health (LLUSPH) in California, has been published in The Journal of Nutrition. She collaborated with other researchers at LLUSPH and the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine and the Institute of Endocrinology for the study.
Researchers worked with participants from the Adventist Health Study-2, which monitors the lives of 96,000 Seventh-day Adventists from the U.S. and Canada. Researchers of the original study consider Adventist populations to be at a lower risk of developing conditions and diseases brought on by obesity, due to their specific eating habits.
Led by Dr. Kahleova, 50,660 adults (30 years old or older) were used in order to find possible link between when and how often people eat and their body mass index.
The study resulted in many findings. Firstly, individuals who ate only one or two meals per day had a decrease in BMI. Conversely, those who ate more than three meals a day increased their BMI. The more meals they ate, the greater the weight gain. Secondly, researchers found that those who had breakfast regularly tended to lose more weight than people who skipped breakfast.
The participants whose largest meal of the day was breakfast experienced a large BMI decrease, in contract to those who made lunch or dinner their largest meal.
Researchers also found that skipping dinner altogether and having a longer, overnight fast contributed to weight loss.
Also found in the study, participants younger than 60 tended to gain more weight, whereas those over 60 tended to experience a loss in BMI. “Before age 60 years, those eating calories earlier in the day had less weight gain,” says Professor Fraser. “Over decades, the total effect [of regularly eating a large breakfast] would be very important,” he adds.
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It seems like every few months there is a new study or product released to the public that claims to make you lose a great amount of weight as fast as possible. Scientists have tested everything from miracle herbs and roots to coffee and nuts. But could scientists have finally discovered the cure-all plant that could eliminate obesity in its entirety?
In a paper published in the journal Cell, scientists claim to have discovered a plant named Thunder God Vine that, not only reduces food intake, but can dramatically decrease body weight by 45 percent – in mice.
Endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and lead study author, Omut Ozcan, says the substance appears to work by enhancing a fat-derived hormone called leptin that signals to the body when it has enough fuel and energy. “During the last two decades, there has been an enormous amount of effort to treat obesity by breaking down leptin resistance, but these efforts have failed. The message from this study is that there is still hope for making leptin work,” Ozcan stated.
In the study, within only one week of treatment, with an extract made from thunder god vine (which they called Celastrol), the mice reduced their food intake by 80 percent as compared with those who did not receive the extract. Celastrol, according to the lead study author, boosts the sensitivity of the hormone leptin. After three weeks, those mice lost almost half of their initial body weight. Scientists also report other positive health effects like lower cholesterol levels and improved liver function.
Though this study sounds promising, the scientists say more studies need to be done to test the extract in humans. Ozcan explains, “Celastrol is found in the roots of the thunder god vine in small amounts, but the plant’s roots and flowers have many other compounds. As a result, it could be dangerous for humans.”
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