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Energy Balance and Obesity
A Short Review
- JOE M. DABNEY, PH.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Joe M. Dabney, Ph.D., Department of Physiology, The University of Oklahoma Medical Center, 800 Northeast Thirteenth Street, Oklahoma City 4, Oklahoma.
Excerpt
Medical opinion generally holds that being overweight constitutes, at best, a life-shortening situation. The actuarial studies of life insurance companies on this point are hardly deniable and the extra premiums charged overweight people demonstrate that the companies believe them to be poor risks (1, 2).
Most individuals, physicians and laymen alike, would emphasize the excessive intake of calories as the most important cause of obesity while realizing that "excessive" means simply a greater intake of energy than is spent. Since the classical work of Rubner (3) on the dog and Atwater and Benedict (4) on the human, it has been
Summario in Interlingua
Es presentate un breve examine de certe aspectos del balancia de energia in tanto que illos concerne le etiologia, prevention, o therapia de obesitate. Partiente ab un "equation" general que describe le balancia de energia, factores concernente le regulation del ingestion es quasi completemente negligite. In loco de isto, le accento es placiate quasi totalmente super factores concernente le rendimento de energia. Le contribution del total activitate corporee es examinate, e studios experimental es citate que incrimina un basse nivello de activitate physic in le causation, mantenentia, e non-successose tractamento de obesitate. Es etiam mentionate certe experimentos que pare indicar le possibilitate que differentias in le efficacia metabolic investi le subjecto obese con un avantage in le balanca de energia que pote in le curso de prolongate tempores resultar in le formation de un excesso de tissu. Discutite plus detaliatement es le evidentia que monstra que un situation metabolic existe experimentalmente e geneticamente que promove le formation de tissu adipose al expensa de altere typos. Es notate le plus saliente aspectos del recente progressos in le studio del metabolismo de tissue adipose.
Le autor insiste que su presentation es partial. Su these non es presentate como doctrina sed como un conception que es possibile e merita esser prendite seriemente.
Article and Author Information
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From the Department of Physiology, The University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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- Received November 1, 1963.
- Accepted December 11, 1963.
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