The New Method of Weight Loss Was Founded

Obesity turns more and more into the global problem. The inhabitants of developed countries (from 45 up to 60 % of adult population) suffer from the obesity especially strongly. However, the total elimination of fat from organism is simply dangerous.

The abdominal fat is considered to be the most harmful fat, i.e. fat depots in the abdomen and waist area. It raises the risk of metabolic diseases such as diabetes, for example. As for subcutaneous or peripheral fat, which is on thighs, it can protect us too.

The scientists from Harvard found that fat can be controlled and its influence on the organism can be not only negative, but also positive.

During carrying out a experiment on rats the professor Kann discovered that one can transplant the peripheral fat in the abdomen area and so reduce the risk of the diseases connected with the obesity. He considers that one can «reprogram» the abdominal fat in order to make it behave as a peripheral fat. So, people being as before obese, at least will be thereby more healthy.

One more important discovery was carried out in this year. It was found that people possess depots of brown fat tissue. Opposite to white fat the brown fat does not cumulate the energy but burns it out. At that it burns out in the large quantities. Earlier it was considered that the adult persons have no brown fat and that only children or animals (for example rats) have his fat. However, the new technology of scanning permitted to detect the very small places in the area of patients necks where cells of brawn fat are mixed with cells of white fat.

As explained by Ronald Kann only two ounces of brown fat (62 gr) can burn out 400--500 calories per day. It is very difficult to burn out such volume of energy by means of physical exercises. So, the addition of brown fat small quantity can help in the battle with excess weight.

Similar to the muscular tissue in the brown fat there are many very small cell energy stations – mitochondrions. In the muscles they transform the glucose into energy, thanks to which we live. But mitochondrions of brown fat have insignificant defects and work less effectively. The most part of energy produced by them turns into the heat.
The scientists consider that brown fat reserves activation at obese patients and also raise of its level can help them to deliver from excess weight. Professor Kann for example, discovered that by means of growth factor BMP-7 stem cells can be turned into brown fat. When it was grafted to mice, small islands of brown fat were formed. Now Kann is going to carry out such experiments at people.

Professor Ien Clark from Monash University in Melburn considers that not only brown fat, but also cells of muscular tissue can burn out the additional calories. It could control the process of energy burning at sheeps by means of the special hormone. If this hormone will be effective for people too a new medicine for weight loss can be appear in course of time.