Obesity Blog
The relationship between obesity and metabolic rates
This is slightly unusual as in this instance we are not just interested in the views of members of the public (weight challenged or not) but in healthcare professionals as well. So if you wish to speak with “more than one hat” please mention which one you are wearing at the moment. You may be wearing both, if so, do mention this.
The motivation behind this blog is that a piece of research has come out of Sweden where Professor Fredrik Nystrom, who led the research at Linkoping University tried to replicate the experiment conducted in 2005 Morgan Spurlock’s recent film Super Size Me, under laboratory conditions.
Most research, to date, it seems, has mainly been carried out with people who are already overweight –
In this experiment, research was carried out with people of normal weight when on their normal diet, to see whether weight gain was an equal issue to those who are overweight. It was realized that these volunteers had a higher metabolic rate than those who were overweight , because they often mentioned feeling hot/warm/ sweaty when overeating.
We would like you to think about this and let us know how you feel when you eat or overeat.
In particular we are interested in the following questions addressing the community generally
• When you are eating/overeating, do you yourself feel warm/hot/ or sweaty?
• Do you feel that whatever you eat makes you put on weight?
• Do you never put on weight but feel hot/warm when you eat/overeat?
• Do you feel that more help should be available to monitor metabolic rates?
• What could be done to improve the process in your view?
Of course we would appreciate any comments you might have on obesity and weight issues.
Please feel to contribute you thought and share your experiences. All you need to do is type a nickname of your choice and the put your comments into the box. Your comments are anonymous of course!
I look forward to reading your comments
Best wishes
Belinda
