Skinny people can die from diseases victims of obesity. Well, the owners of excess weight are sometimes more healthy than we think.
Plump, but sports is a seemingly paradoxical description often used by people with excess weight to justify their unhealthy addictions to food. Indeed, there is some evidence that some overweight people lead long and healthy lives, while others are thin for some reason leave this life prematurely from such traditional diseases fat as diabetes or heart attacks. And now, apparently, the doctors figured out why this happens, having made a real breakthrough in our understanding of the relationship of weight and diseases. With this discovery, it is even possible to determine the foods that pose a threat to each individual.
American scientists have developed a blood test that is more accurate assessment of a person’s weight and risk of disease than body mass index. It measures all the components in the blood that belong to the category metabolome. The analysis of these components can be used to identify people that are threatened by higher risk of diabetes and heart disease. In the future the same principle really apply when assessing the risks of ailments such as hypertension, autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and even cancer. Observing the changes of the metabolome, it is possible to identify people whose risk of certain diseases raised several times, as suggested by researchers from the Scripps Research Instituteв California. Moreover, the same test might predict the human reaction to certain medications.
Your conclusions the American scientists have made after analyzing the body mass index and genes approximately 2 000 people with obesity and normal weight, which were observed for 13 years. All parameters were estimated around 1,000 components in the blood, including fatty acids, sugars, hormones and vitamins. All of these components change due to age and lifestyle, also weight. They include the concept of metabolome – the set of all low molecular weight metabolites present in a biological sample. It is on the basis of the assessment of the abnormality of the metabolome can be used to explain why some thin people faced with the disease of fat people and fat people, by contrast, were quite healthy and long life. (READ MORE)