Obesity. ? Cause

Does television cause childhood obesity?

Hyperinsulinemia: a Cause of Obesity?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This perspective is motivated by the need to question dogma that does not work: that the problem is insulin resistance (IR). We highlight the need to investigate potential environmental obesogens and toxins. RECENT FINDINGS The prequel to severe metabolic disease includes three interacting components that are abnormal: (a) IR, (b) elevated lipids and (c) elevated basal insul...

Does Sugar Addiction Really Cause Obesity?

Obesity has become the major health problem in many industrialized countries. But why do so many people – who are facing an abundant food offer – stay slim? All organs in the human organism like the heart, liver, kidney lose 40% of their weight during inanition, except the brain, which loses 1% or less (Krieger, 1921). According to the Selfish Brain theory, the brain uses its stress system, i.e...

Elevated leptin: consequence or cause of obesity?

Leptin is an adipocyte-derived, satiety-regulating hormone that acts within the hypothalamus and other brain sites. Obese humans and animals are largely resistant to central actions of leptin. Rising leptin levels associated with progressing obesity are generally regarded as simply a consequence rather than a causative factor in the leptin resistance and obesity. Several lines of evidence sugge...

Hypothyroidism and obesity. Cause or effect?

OBJECTIVE To establish relationship between obesity and hypothyroidism and to analyze the frequency the frequency of primary hypothyroidism in obese patients and frequency of obesity in primary hypothyroidism patients. METHODS We conducted this retrospective, observational study in the Department of Endocrinology and Obesity Clinic, Medwin Hospital, Hyderabad, India in Mar 2008. In the last 1...