 |
| Research shows the ties between obesity and asthma |
Research conducted at the University of Buffalo shows significant existence of
biological tie between obesity and asthma.
Have you ever imagined
eating kills?
What is obesity? It is
a medical condition in which excess body fat accumulates to an extent that it
will have adverse negative effect on health and reduces the life expectancy of
a given individual.
This accumulation of
fats leads to morbid obesity which is serious health condition that can
interfere with the basic physical functioning like breathing and walking. This
health disorder causes some illness for instance: diabetes, high blood pressure,
sleep apnea, gallstones, heart disease and cancer.
On the other side,
asthma, is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways featured by
changing and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction and
bronchospasm.
Symptoms including:
wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath. Many link it to
environmental concern.
The research says that
morbidly obese patient who lost weight through the process of gastric bypass
surgery also saw a decrease in the activity of gene tied to asthma. There are
genes that linked to chronic inflammation in asthma that is active in obese
people.
It goes on and
explains, increased gene expression causes the white blood/defense cell to
calculate the mononuclear cells to produce far greater amount of inflammatory
factors that finally contributes to allergic inflammation and other
abnormalities in the bronchial passage in asthma.
“our findings points
the way to the management of asthma in the obese through simple weight reduction,”
said first author Paresh Dandona,MD,PhD,SUNNY Distinguished Professor and Chief
of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the university at the
Buffalo.
Gastric bypasses
surgery is indicated for the surgical treatment of morbid obesity which is very
dangerous level of obesity; a diagnosis which is made operation that first the
stomach is divide into smaller upper pouch and much larger lower “remnat”pouch
and then re-arranged the small intestine to connect to both sections.
“Ours is the first
study to provide a mechanistic link between obesity and asthma through
biological/immunological mechanism,”Dandona said. “There has been, until now,
no biological, mechanistic explanation other than the fact that obesity may
raise the diaphragm and thus reduce lung volumes.”
This gastric bypass has
negative effect on your body which includes:
Mortality and
complication rates, infection as bacteria is released into the bowel,
hemorrhage where bleeding occurs into the abdomen or the bowel when the cutting
is done in some cases that is, nutritional effect that happens since the
stomach volume will reduced.
In such scenario, a
small chunk of food seems to fill the stomach making the individual to suffer
from nutrition deficiency as well as vitamins and minerals.
The burning
question is how can you prevent obesity?
Eat breakfast every
single day because the body will consume few calories for the day.
The other method is
doing regular exercise, take light and hygienic healthy food, keep track of
your body weight, reduce screen time that limit the use of TVs, computers, DVDs as
this will limit time for physical activity.
