Through taking a swab from the mouth of the baby for the presence of bacteria can predict future risk of obesity. To such conclusion scientists from the University of Pennsylvania.
A swab taken from the mouth of the child, can give valuable information about what faces him in the future obesity. American scientists have found that living in your mouth-year-old children harmless micro-organisms are less diverse if these children subsequently gain large amounts of weight, and do it faster than their peers. The mouth is part of the digestive tract, but recently scholars have focused on studies of the human microbiome. The level of bacteria determine the health risks in various areas. Naturally, in the first place, this concerns the processes of digestion.
Now the study’s authors believe that their discovery doctors will be very effective and completely painless test that predicts the likelihood of childhood obesity. Therefore, children will be able to defend against a threat to the health and life of large amounts of excess weight with the help of a specially designed diet and physical activity. That is, with childhood obesity will fight before it happens due to the smears from the oral cavity. And this would be a strong argument in opposing the epidemic of childhood obesity.
Magicforum recalls that the epidemic constituted a global threat to all humanity, as suggested by the experts of the world health organization. Childhood obesity leads to adult obesity, which increases the risk of cancer, type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease. As a result, the costs of many States for the treatment of its citizens grow to astronomical proportions, and with it increasing disability population, which negatively affects productivity and undermines the economy. (READ MORE)