Aetiology of obesity

The aetiology of childhood obesity: a review.

Whilst the prevention of childhood obesity is the only viable, enduring, cost-effective solution to the obesity epidemic, effective methods for it remain elusive. Furthermore, strategies to influence obesogenic environments remain relatively unexplored. In order to be able to develop powerful population-level interventions and public health policies to prevent childhood obesity, it is important...

Physiological mechanisms in the aetiology and maintenance of obesity

Increase in the incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus has been attributed to genetic and hypothalamic factors, an increase in the consumption of energy dense food and intestinal microbiota, and lack or decrease in exercise. obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus are associated with hypertension, coronary heart disease, and certain forms of cancer. Though consumption of calorie dense d...

Obesity : some current views regarding its aetiology JOANNA SHELDON

Obesity results from an imbalance between calorie intake and calorie output. Although an excessive calorie intake is the most obvious and usual explanation for the development of obesity, a variety of factors influencing calorie expenditure may also be involved. Some of these factors may even be inborn. Recent work on controls of energy utilization, and on the relation between obesity and chang...

A review on aetiology and pathogeny of African horse sickness

Role of Gut Microbiota in the Aetiology of Obesity: Proposed Mechanisms and Review of the Literature

The aetiology of obesity has been attributed to several factors (environmental, dietary, lifestyle, host, and genetic factors); however none of these fully explain the increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide. Gut microbiota located at the interface of host and environment in the gut are a new area of research being explored to explain the excess accumulation of energy in obese individua...