Weight Loss Treatment

A study conducted by the Journal of Health ‘New England’ recently showed that obesity was a social phenomenon of ‘contagious’, so that helped playmate affect this condition.

When a person with obese friends, so he up to 57% chance to ‘catch’ obesity, so the essence of the research reports prepared by the team leader James Fowler from Harvard University and Nicholas Christakis of the University of California, San Diego.

The study involved about 12,067 people are connected as family relations and friendship between the years 1971-2003, so this study to monitor weight gain during the period of respondents 32 years.

The researchers concluded, weight gain was influenced by one’s weight gain others. They also found that part of the brain associated with appetite stimulus will too when seeing others eating patterns.

“Even infectious causes of obesity can be expected,” wrote the researchers.

Further research concluded that his fellow sex and siblings have a stronger influence in terms of improving one’s weight, more influential than friends of the opposite sex.

And if the husband / wife suffered from obesity, the opportunity for couples experiencing the same thing can be up to 37%. But do not worry, this study also brought good news, the same forces that can prevent a person becomes obese or overweight.

Friends and siblings can slow the rate of obesity by encouraging healthy eating and exercise. This can happen because the human perception of health risks depends on the people around them.

Currently, according to data from the United States health research, more than a third of Americans are overweight, and 60 million adults in the country into the category of very fat.