Welcome to our blog which looks at the relationship between obesity and metabolic rates.
The motivation behind this blog is a piece of research from Sweden where Professor Fredrik Nystrom, of Linkoping University tried to replicate the experiment conducted in Morgan Spurlock’s film “Super Size Me” under laboratory conditions.
Most research it seems has been carried out with people who are already overweight. In this experiment research was carried out with people of normal weight on their normal diet to see whether weight gain was a similar issue to those who are overweight. During the research it was observed that these volunteers had a higher metabolic rate than those who were overweight because they often mentioned feeling hot/warm/sweaty when overeating.
We would like you to think about this and let us know how you feel when you eat or overeat.
Obesity
In particular we are interested in the following questions regarding weight loss and metabolism
- When you are eating/overeating, do you feel warm, hot or sweaty?
- Do you feel that whatever you eat makes you put on weight?
- Do you never put on weight but feel hot/warm when you eat/overeat?
- Do you feel that more help should be available to monitor metabolic rates?
Of course we would appreciate any comments you might have on obesity and weight issues.
Please feel to contribute your thoughts and share your experiences. All you need to do is type a nickname of your choice and the put your comments into the box below.