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The Control of Obesity with Vitamin Supplements
Metabolic obesity is not a term most of us have heard. Metabolism is obese individuals of normal weight. His blood insulin and sugar levels in the blood, however, are much higher than expected.
Metabolic obesity is probably best described as “the obesity that is waiting to happen.” A recent clinical study at the University of Vermont offers a good example.
The doctors examined 71 women aged 21 to 35. Of the 71 women participating in the study, 13 were found to be “metabolically obese.”
The weight difference was not, although metabolically obese women weighed slightly more (an average of 132 pounds) than normal women (an average of 129 pounds). Nor is the difference in body fat, while the metabolically obese women had a slightly higher percentage of body fat, 32% compared with 27%.
The fundamental difference between the two groups of women was the body’s ability to remove sugar from the bloodstream after a meal. The longer the body takes blood sugar return to normal levels after eating, the worst of metabolic obesity. Read the rest of this entry »