The infantile obesity is a problem of many societies, and due to the culture of the food scrap iron and the sedentarismo, the levels associated to the same do not stop to grow, with examples of countries like those of the United Kingdom, in which one of each four children is obese.
Nevertheless, the causes of this problem seem absolutely not to be precise, because whereas the preliminary tendency takes to think that it is a overfeeding problem, one recent investigation to us of the University of Cambridge has demonstrated that the infantile obesity has some by its roots in the genes.
The Dr. Sadaf Farooqi, investigator of this institution, warned that the obese children own all certain variants in some genes, own and exclusive of the condition of obesity. “This study demonstrates – Farooqi- affirms that the obesity is a severe medical problem that requires scientific research”.
The conclusion of this study is lent to think seriously, because many of the campaigns infantile anti-obesity focus to suggest solutions of type of nutritional conduct or physical activity.
Clear that factors as the feeding and the exercise play a central role at the time of diminishing the obesity; however, the fact that one is a genetic question invites to new planteos of hypothesis and investigation.