When you here obesity or overweight, most of the time you think that it’s because of a lack of activity or overeating. While this may be true, it may only be partially of what causes one to be overweight or obese. Some studies bring up the relationship between genetics and obesity, questioning the significance of genetics contributing to someone becoming obese.
In a general, it makes common sense that if you consume more calories than you burn, the extra calories have to be stored somewhere in the body, that being the form of fat. This is true, and at some point, ones’ body may use the stored fat for energy as a last resort.
Possible Genetic factors
Over the past few years, there have been many different medical conditions, most of them very specialized conditions that have been linked to ones’ genetic make up. There are actually even a few of these conditions that have been successful in developing a type of medication to possibly treat the condition.
Activity and eating
Although it is much more challenging for many people to lose weight and keep it off, even when maintaining a clean healthy diet, research on this issue of genetics and any possible links to obesity could open up a new door in assisting severely obese patients in weight loss so they can have and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Some research has even shown that after losing the weight, some subjects that may have been geneticly pre disposed to obesity had to work harder in order to keep the weight off when compared to others.
This would mean that although two people consumed the same number of calorie, the one subject that had genetic factors involved with the obesity would probably have to work twice as hard to maintain that weight loss.
Conclusion
From the number of studies out there on genetic factors and obesity, if you are genetically pre disposed to having the gene that can lead to weight loss, it is still possible to lose the weight through lifestyle changes and eating habits. Although it may be made easier to lose that weight when put with specific medications that have been and are currently being researched. I hope that the articles included through the link, along with other research that can be looked at has been of some assistance.