obesity

Anti-obesity attitudes are widespread. However, there are individual differences between men and women in the expression of this type of prejudice, according to a study by the National Distance Education University (UNED) that the SINC agency echoes. Researchers have found that men are more intolerant of people affected by obesity.

Researchers at the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan (USA) have discovered that amlexanox, a drug that until now was prescribed to treat asthma and other inflammatory problems, could put an end to obesity and diabetes for good. Their findings are published in Nature Medicine.

Obese people die more in traffic accidents than people with normal weight, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal 'Emergency Medicine Journal'. Based on data from 57,491 fatal traffic accidents recorded over twelve years in the United States, the researchers found that, for vehicles of a similar model and size, the risk of the driver dying increased by 21% if they suffered from severe obesity I, and 51% if they suffered from grade II obesity.

Until a very few years ago there was a widespread belief that obese people were obese because they had little will power to diet and eat less. Today we know that obesity cannot be reduced to a behavioral problem, but rather a disease, and that behind it there is a significant hormonal imbalance.

Fat, plump, well fed, fat, plump, plump, solid, chubby, fat, deep in meat ... Despite being overweight, they all tend to share a weak point: self-esteem. To fight against social, employment and even medical discrimination suffered by obese people, in 1969 the obesity acceptance movement, also known as "fat power", emerged in the United States.

Spanish researchers from the Rey Juan Carlos University have shown that high levels of sugars increase the activity of a protein called b-catenin, closely related to tumor progression. This explains why epidemiological data show that the frequency of certain types of cancer can be doubled in populations with high blood sugar levels such as obese or diabetics.

People who are "apple-shaped" have more fat concentrated around the abdomen, while those who identify that their body is "pear-shaped" have more adipose tissue in the buttocks, hips and thighs. What is better for health?

One of the most recurring resolutions of the new year is to go on a diet and lose a few pounds after the Christmas excesses. However, the most advisable thing is to carry out the regimen under medical supervision, and above all not to rely on miracle diets and magic products to lose weight. In an article published in the American Journal of Public Health, the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEEDO) warns of the dangers of dietary supplements.