Health Hazards of obesity and Herbal Treatment

Now we know, a little better, the regulation of body fat. The center director is at the base of the brain (hypothalamus), where many signals are integrated, mainly:

• Signals from the adipose tissue itself where there is secretion of a hormone, leptin, which regulates our appetite and perhaps our energy expenditure.
• Signals from hormones synthesized in the pancreas (insulin and glucagon) and in gastro-intestinal.
• Finally the central peptides, especially neuropeptide Y: this protein is one of many hormones that regulate feeding behavior. Produced in excess in obese mice, it is associated with a more frequent feeding and a parallel increase of fatty tissue.

When weight regulation is disturbed, and we grow till obesity, it is quite difficult to revert to its previous weight. By following a diet and increasing energy expenditure (physical activity), we obviously lose weight, but the signals from the adipose tissue (even partially emptied of its fat) and the center of weight regulation will all go in the same direction: regain the lost weight to get almost exactly the weight before the procedure.

WHAT ARE THE HEALTH HAZARDS OF OBESITY OR OVERWEIGHT?

Health is profoundly and permanently altered by a prolonged and significant increase in body fat.
• mechanical complications : permanent overloading of weight leads to "wear" premature joints (osteoarthritis), an increased risk of bone fracture, shortness of breath, which may become permanent, and increased cardiac work.

• Metabolic complications: Sustainable overweight alters the regulation of lipids and carbohydrates to achieve what physiologists call "metabolic syndrome" which combines: increased weight and increased waist circumference with an elevation of blood pressure, elevated blood sugar and abnormal blood lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol). Central to this syndrome there is the "insulin resistance": the inability of tissues, normally susceptible to this hormone, to respond normally to the action of insulin. This resistance of target tissues to insulin may be fairly accompanied with rapid exhaustion of the pancreatic cells that secrete insulin with consequent severe diabetes.
The insulin resistance is also associated with abnormal triglycerides and blood cholesterol and an inflammation that promotes atherosclerosis (cardiovascular disease and hypertension, alterations of the kidneys).

• Increase in cancers: epidemiological studies confirm increased hormone cancers among people in overweight or obese: genital cancers and breast in women, prostate cancer in men.

• Disruption of social and professional life, psychological disorders: obesity was admired and even revered but no longer is, except in certain Arab countries. This "epidemic" of obesity worldwide is a fact of society, it represents a significant change in the way we eat, we move, we heat, we live in general. Nutritionists and epidemiologists are agreed: we must make prevention, prevent overweight from settling down. Obesity is difficult to combat. But there are ways to reduce excess weight and complications that accompany it such as herbal treatments.

Obesity and overweight are linked to the existence of an energy imbalance: we eat too much, too fatty, too sweet, while our physical activity and thus our energy needs have declined.

Herbs are a good means to cure obesity because herbal products are very natural products that do not result in drawbacks. Herbal therapy naturally triggers burning the fat stores which your body does not need any more. Herbal drugs are remarkable and thermogenic products that also work as energy enhancers which keep you energized as they contain no Ephedra, a chemical harmful ingredient, habitually found in weight loss pharmaceutical drugs. Herbal treatment helps to improve the mechanism of food absorption. It burns fat effectively due to the natural properties of the herbal product.