السبت، 28 يوليو 2012

Obesity can be transmitted

A team of U.S. researchers from Harvard and California that obesity is contagious "social" and accompanying friends are suffering from obesity may be transmitted disease infection to them.

Scientists have examined the health records of 12 thousand families over 32 years to reach that person's risk of obesity rise more than 50 percent if the presence in the vicinity of obese people.

Observers said that if it turns out the validity of these research findings may explain why the prevalence of obesity in the United States of America, where studies indicate that 119 million adults are overweight in the United States which is up to 64.5% of the population.

The cause of obesity in the death of 300 thousand people a year in the United States, rather than add to the burden that the health budget and the estimated billions of dollars.

The problem is over time to the extent that some described the problem of obesity in American schools as "a threat as a threat of terrorism."

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