Obesity, Fat & Insulin
Dr. Sorisky is also working with clients
from a weight-loss program, comparing their pre-fat cells before and after
weight loss. The early indications, he says, are that pre-fat cells are
more disposed to becoming fat cells after a significant weight loss.
He is not prone to exaggeration and, as
tempting as it might be, will not say that an "anti-fat pill"
is on the horizon or even on the agenda.
One of the central areas of Dr. Sorisky's
research is the relationship between insulin and obesity. Insulin is a
hormone that regulates the level of sugar or glucose in the blood. In
fat tissue, insulin helps the storage of glucose and its conversion to
fatty acids. He is looking at how obesity is capable of producing a state
of "insulin resistance," impairing the work of the hormone in
muscle, the liver and the brain.
"The one message (from research) that
became clear is that fat or adipose tissue was not simply a place where
one socked away a lot of excess calories. Beyond that, the fat tissue
itself was making a whole elaborate array of important factors that are
released by those fat cells and circulate through the body."
See:
Obesity Fat Research
Obesity Fat Cells
Obesity, Fat & Genes
Obesity, Fat & Insulin
Source: The Ottawa Citizen, Monday, June
24, 2002
Obesity and Weight Loss
Obesity is now the "trillion dollar disease". This reflects
the social costs of obesity, in health and lost production, as well as
the weight loss drug profits that might be made for any pharmaceutical
company that finds a drug-cure for obesity. The search for viable weight
loss medications continues, although pharmaceutical weight loss products
still have significant side effects.
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