Multiple sclerosis and obesity in adolescents

• April 26, 2024

There is some research that says that teenage girls obese have a higher risk of developing MS multiple sclerosis, compared to those that are not. According to an investigation in 238,371 women between 25 to fifty-five years of age. They were asked a questionnaire about their behavior with the sense of their health every two years. In more than forty years, 593 of the respondents developed multiple sclerosis.

The respondents

The respondents reported their exact weight and height at the age of eighteen. The researchers calculated their body mass index (BMI) and were given a choice of nine different types of silhouettes, from very thin to extremely obese, in order to have a general description of their body size at five, ten and Twenty years old.

The results

Through this study it was concluded that women who had a BMI of thirty or more years of age, at eighteen years of age, were more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis, compared to those who had a BMI of nineteen to twenty years. Those with a BMI of twenty-five to twenty-nine were already considered overweight, while those who were obese had a BMI of thirty kilograms per square meter.

The famous professor of the School of Public Health of Harvard Kassandra Munger, in the United States, has declared that the results of the study indicate that the weight has an important paper in the development of the MS in the adolescence, in comparison with the one of the childhood and adulthood. This means that teenagers have to learn about the prevention of obesity from the beginning, to reduce the risk of having multiple sclerosis later.

The conclusions

Professor Munger says there are two more likely states that could explain why obesity has that role in the risk of multiple sclerosis. According to what he has discovered, a high level of vitamin D in the body, reduces the risk to a large extent. However, obese people have very low levels of vitamin D.

Another possible explanation is that adipose tissue contains substances that can affect the immune system and to types of cellular activity that are considered associated with multiple sclerosis.

The EM diet

Nutrition is a good way to prevent or prevent the development of multiple sclerosis. For example, many of those who have MS have testified that the consumption of gluten-rich foods makes them feel bad, although there are still no scientific conclusions to support this thesis.

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