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Obesity Virus
What's This About An Obesity Virus?
Have you heard anything about the research reported recently in the January
issue of the American Journal of Physiology--Regulatory, Integrative, and
Comparative Physiology about the idea that certain viruses may be helping to
feed the obesity crisis. The research reported involved chickens injected
with one of the proposed obesity viruses. The injected chickens did
indeed develop 2 to 3 times more body fat than the chickens without the
injections (even though they ate the same chicken diet).
My take on this?
While this new research and scientific inquiry into possible obesity viruses
is fascinating and potentially very helpful in future decades, at this
moment in time, having a healthy lifestyle (healthy foods and regular
exercise) is our best defense against obesity. Virus or no virus, many of us
will predictably gain weight if we are sedentary and eating more calories
than we are burning.
~Elaine
Related Topics: Obesity Doubles Kids' Risk of Diabetes, Most U.S. Adults Still Don't Exercise
Technorati Tags: obesity, obesityvirus, diet, exercise
Have you heard anything about the research reported recently in the January
issue of the American Journal of Physiology--Regulatory, Integrative, and
Comparative Physiology about the idea that certain viruses may be helping to
feed the obesity crisis. The research reported involved chickens injected
with one of the proposed obesity viruses. The injected chickens did
indeed develop 2 to 3 times more body fat than the chickens without the
injections (even though they ate the same chicken diet).
My take on this?
While this new research and scientific inquiry into possible obesity viruses
is fascinating and potentially very helpful in future decades, at this
moment in time, having a healthy lifestyle (healthy foods and regular
exercise) is our best defense against obesity. Virus or no virus, many of us
will predictably gain weight if we are sedentary and eating more calories
than we are burning.
~Elaine
Related Topics: Obesity Doubles Kids' Risk of Diabetes, Most U.S. Adults Still Don't Exercise
Technorati Tags: obesity, obesityvirus, diet, exercise
13 Comments:
But isn't it typical that people are looking for the "easy" solution instead of the more healthy one which seems too much like work? It seems to be pretty normal for our culture.
I think for a nation as lazy as ours we tend to always look for someone to blame for everything. Fact is we don't work out and keep fit. boosted up chickens or not.
I have been off my Synthroid for 3 weeks due to no money and now that I got more do I take full dosage? My dosage is 1.75 or do i need to work up slowly?
I have found that taking 2 protein shakes aday plus 100 ounces of water along with a very very healthy eating program and vitamins along with fish oil co/q10 etc I am not hungry and have lost 14 lbs 3 weeks. Daughter has lost over 50 lbs in 6 mo and feels great.
Marilyn
As always...it all boils down to calories in, calories out. We as a nation take in a whole lot more calories than we burn off. Our food sources are plentiful, as are our excuses to be sedentary. I'm no exception to the rule. I'm in the process of attempting to lose 50 lbs. So far, I'm down 12 lbs. in only a couple of weeks with healthier eating, cleaner cooking, and increased activity. Wish me luck :-) (Wouldn't it be great if we could blame our obesity on a virus, though?).
Any diet can work if you work at it,diets don't qiut people do. I have been dieting now for two years and there's time I feel like quitting but then I realize the weight did'nt go on over night and it's not going to go off over night either. A well balanced diet and exercise will get you to your goal, don't give up on you your worth it.
I know I am not a movie star, yet. How is it that these stars can get into top shape, and loose weight for a film? Anybody have some ideas as to how I can get into top shape, quick and loose weight?
One does not have to be sedintary or lazy to gain weight. I worked for almost 20 years at a fruit packing house sorting fruit standing in one spot 7 to 8 hours a day. By the end of the day I was too tired to do any kind of exerciseing. So as a result I'm paying for it. I didn't feel motivated to do other wise.
I am on several different medications due to having heart problems, however I continue to gain weight. Most of my medications causes drowiness, I feel so tired all the time, it makes it hard to exercise. I'd like to blame all of this extra weight on a virus. But it all goes back to calories in, calories out, and lack of good old fashion exercise.
Not everybody can exercise. 16 years ago I was on the "Optifast" diet, a hospital-run and supervised program. It involved a 12-week supplemented fast (our only food was liquid supplements, a refeeding time of another 13 weeks, weekly group therapy with a psychologist and EXERCISE. The supplements then had tryptophan in them, which the FDA has since stupidly banned, but the exercise was probably the key to me losing 80 lbs over the 6 months. But my MS has gotten worse and I can't RUN around my neighborhood in skimpy shorts, shirt and shoes,...because I FALL DOWN. My father has decried fatness ALL MY LIFE and if there is such a virus, I need the vaccine. -Debbie
Your Father needs some counseling.
I too was on the Optifast program through a major medical center 25 years ago. there was no councelling or emphasis on exercise.As a result, I lost fat and muscle and lost a lot of my hair. Now I'm in my 60's and can't seem to get started in any program; I just can't do it again plus I have fibromyalgia and a lot of pain, so starting an exercise program is quite difficult. I need some encouragement.
Eating healthy is easy, stop calling it dieting, its not its a life change, when you plan to eat healthy the rest of your life its not a diet..when its called a DIET u feel deprived of your favorite foods, when you change how you prepare them, you can eat anything and still eat healthy. I have done it for 7 years now and I eat everything i did before. I was Fat and im not afraid to say so. Change the way you eat and stop the damn dieting.
I've learned that some medications can cause people to gain weight Along with other sedentary problems and laziness. I'm not blaming laziness on others because I'm lazy too.
I also suffer from pain levels others can't handle without the strength of God. My Dr. will not send me to a pain specialist for the pain. Oh well, I have God on my side and He will help me through my trial.
Depression also has a role in obesity. People use food to relieve their depression and other ailments because food doesn't talk back and say quit eating.
We have to make that choice ourselves. But the question is how many have the strength to say enough?
Mike Watson
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