Gut Health Is Emerging as a Predictor to Obesity

Weight gain isn’t exclusively tied to how well you eat and how active you are. While that’s the common consensus, scientists have understood for some time now that there’s a significant genetic propensity to obesity.

Some people are much more predisposed to becoming obese later in life than others, which is why you’ll often see overweight families instead of healthy parents and overweight kids.

Previously, we could only detect whether kids would be prone to obesity after they already started showing signs of being overweight. Normally you can check their metabolisms, but they change with age, so it’s hard to predict where it will end up when they’re adults.

By the time they’re all grown up, it could already be too late. New studies have shown that the genes contributing to obesity can be detected in children as early as two years old by studying one simple part of your body: gut health.

Your digestive system is responsible for far more than you might think. Of course, it processes food and converts it into waste, but it’s also closely tied with your metabolism and how that food is used in the body.

If you’re not aware, your digestive system is filled with tiny bacteria that help us by breaking down the food we eat, and those bacteria are the key to this study. The studies showed that by observing samples of the gut bacteria in children, they could accurately predict whether or not those children would be predisposed to obesity later in life.

This can make a major difference, because if it turns out your child is likely going to be overweight, you can change their eating habits early to make sure they don’t wind up overweight or obese later in life.

This study is also very relevant to adults. If an adult is already obese, they can lose the weight with workout regiments and diets, but the process can become easier if they can improve their own gut health.

By helping your digestive system out, you’ll find that weight loss becomes a lot easier and you’ll see results faster.

One thing you can focus on if you want to better your gut health is fiber. Fiber is an essential nutrient that helps your digestive system do its job, so having enough is very important.

You can increase your fiber intake by eating things like vegetables and grains.

Three Different Doctors Can Help with Your Weight Loss Plan

For many people, weight loss has proven to be difficult for them to accomplish on their own. Each new year they promise to themselves to lose a certain amount of weight, but by the end of the year, they’re around the same weight, if not more.

Sticking to a strict diet regimen and workout plan is really taxing, especially if you’re trying to do it all by yourself. Instead, a better option may be to seek help from a medical professional.

Medical professionals are highly sought after for weight loss advice and help due to their years of experience and deep knowledge of the human body.

However, it can be difficult trying to decide which kind of doctor you should visit, especially depending on how overweight you are or how much weight you’re trying to lose.

These factors, along with cost, can determine your best option, but there are three common choices that you should start looking into. The first kind of professional that can help you out is a psychologist.

While it may sound strange at first, excessive eating can actually stem from a wide range of psychological complications. Some people eat because of stress, while others essentially have an addiction to it.

Talking to a psychologist about your problems and about solutions for it can help you develop better, long lasting eating habits without any kinds of surgery.

Another option that you can seek out is an endocrinologist, which is essentially a specialist in metabolic processes.

If you’re unfamiliar with it, metabolic processes are the conversion from food into energy, which is basically burning off the food you eat instead of letting it get converted into fat storages.

People with higher metabolisms will often be able to eat more food and stay the same weight than people with lower metabolisms. Endocrinologists can help you by taking these factors into account and giving you the best workout and dietary plans.

Finally, some people work best by discussing their problem with a weight loss surgeon. There are a wide variety of surgeries that people can have in order to make themselves eat less or lose weight.

For example, liposuctions can be used on people with lower fat levels, but they won’t work on people with higher fat.

In some instances, the better options are things like gastric bands or balloons that can reduce your stomach size. This physically prevents you from being able to eat excessively, meaning you’ll be fuller faster and won’t have to eat as much.


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Use Lavender to Prevent Emotional Eating

Many people today have taken to using essential oils and other sensory treatments to change their moods and improve their health. Psychologists believe that certain smells and certain colors can affect how a person behaves or feels.

Certain smells can make you hungry, some colors can get you fired up, and certain sounds can make you upset. When it comes to calming you down, no smell is better than lavender.

One of the main triggers that drives some people to overeat is stress. So many people choose comfort foods, which are typically high calorie, to calm them down when they’re upset.

After a bad day, they might come home and eat a bunch of ice cream or sweets to make themselves a bit happier. The problem is, this can also lead to serious weight gain, which can upset you even more.

The smell of lavender has an inherent soothing property. Lab based research has proven that lavender’s scent reduces anxiety and stress, both of which can cause someone to overeat.

It has certain properties so that when you smell it, your brain receives certain signals, which helps you calm down.

Now, ideally, it would be very efficient to have some actual lavender sitting around in your room that you could smell every time you were feeling stressed – but that would be very expensive.

Instead, because most people don’t have that luxury, there are many options available to help you get that calming smell flowing around your room or house without having to deal with actual flowers.

They vary in effectiveness and cost, but it’s recommended that you try a few of them and see what works for you. One option that you can take is a basic air freshener. These are fairly cheap, and can just plug into any wall outlet.

They come in a wide variety of scents, and lavender is among the most popular. The problem with air fresheners is that they can burn out quickly and the smell might not be very potent.

Another option that many have taken to is incense. Incense sticks are usually set up in a room and lit at one end, slowly burning down throughout the day.

They have been used in some cultures for spiritual purposes, but in many western cultures, they’re either for show or for smell.

Lavender incense sticks are easily available and can help brighten any room. The smell you get from these sticks is also much more potent than other options.

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