{"id":127402,"date":"2021-09-08T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/high-fat-diets-break-the-body-clock-this-may-be-the-underlying-cause-of-obesity"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:22:48","slug":"high-fat-diets-break-the-body-clock-this-may-be-the-underlying-cause-of-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/high-fat-diets-break-the-body-clock-this-may-be-the-underlying-cause-of-obesity","title":{"rendered":"High Fat Diets Break the Body Clock \u2014 This May Be the Underlying Cause of Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-fat-diets-break-the-body-clock-this-may-be-the-underlying-cause-of-obesity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the researchers propose that disturbance in the DVC\u2019s timekeeping leads to obesity, rather than being the result of excessive body weight.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When rats are fed a high fat diet, this disturbs the body clock in their brain that normally controls satiety, leading to over-eating and obesity. That\u2019s according to new research published in <em>The Journal of Physiology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The number of people with obesity has nearly tripled worldwide since 1975.<sup>[1]<\/sup> In England alone, 28% of adults are obese and another 36% are overweight.<sup>[2]<\/sup> Obesity can lead to several other diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer.<sup>[3]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>This new research may be a cornerstone for future clinical studies that could restore the proper functioning of the body clock in the brain, to avoid overeating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, the researchers propose that disturbance in the DVC\u2019s timekeeping leads to obesity, rather than being the result of excessive body weight. When rats are fed a high fat diet, this disturbs the body clock in their brain that normally controls satiety, leading to over-eating and obesity. That\u2019s according to new research published in The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}