23:04 Scientists spoke about the causes of teenage obesity – Pskov News Feed

08.09.2016 23:04 ITT, Pskov

 British biologists have found a possible cause of sudden development of obesity in adolescents. So, it turned out that about 10-12 years, energy consumption of the body decreases dramatically at rest, and their appetite is not changed, according to an article published in the International Journal of Obesity.

 “Childhood obesity and associated diabetes are among the most dangerous for our health problems today. Our finding explains why teenagers start to put on weight during puberty, and points to possible strategies to combat this phenomenon, “- quoted Terry Wilkin of the University of Exeter«

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 Wilkin and his colleagues for 12 years trying to figure out what caused the current epidemic of obesity among children and adolescents, watching the lives of several hundred students and preschool age children living and living in the area of ​​Plymouth.

 Scientists interested in three things – how many calories are consumed the body of children in general, how much food they ate and how much energy their body spent at rest – at a time when teenagers and doshkolyata not engaged in sports or have tried to solve some complicated math problems, but just awake and rested.

 According to biologists, to date their colleagues believed that the amount of energy that our body spends on your heating and maintenance of the internal organs, depends solely on its size. Therefore, if we follow this logic, the bodies of the children need to consume more and more energy as they grow.

 This relationship does exist, however, been observed Wilkin and his team, it works for children aged from five to ten years. After that, contrary to the expectations of scientists energoappetity body at rest are plummeting.

 As the calculations of British physicians, adolescent body consumes at rest by about 500 calories a day less than a decade of the body of children. This can be compared with the way jokes Wilkin, if the teenager ate each day once “Big Mac” or any other burger bought at one of the fast food chains.

 At the same appetites of teenagers do not change, resulting in many of them, the researchers suggest, are beginning to gain weight quickly. The situation was corrected only in 16-18 years, when the body energoappetity return to normal. This is supported by the fact that at this age, many obese teenagers begin to rapidly lose weight and gain a healthy weight

Source:. Pskov News Release