Belly Fat distinction of Black and
White fat Women
May 11, 2006
Experts found new evidence regarding why weight loss may
be mostly hard for Corpulent black women.
Hisham Barakat, PhD, medicine department of East Carolina
University in Greenville, N.C. and colleagues studied the
belly fat of 14 extremely obese black women and found new
evidence that helps in finding the answer of why weight
loss may be mostly hard for Corpulent black women.
Barakat's team inscribes in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
& Metabolism that the previous studies have shown that
"obese African-American women lose less weight and
at a slower rate than Caucasian women do, across a variety
of treatments including conservative interventions, very
low calorie intake, and surgery"
Belly fat examination
The study has been done on 14 white fat women and 14 black
fat women with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 40 by
the experts. A BMI of 30 or more falls in the category of
obese people.
These selected women for Bakarta`s study came for gastric
bypass surgery to East Carolina University in Greenville,
N.C. . By means of the women's consent, doctors took fat
samples from the women during surgery. Two fat samples have
been taken from women one from the just below the women
slim and other from the deep inside the abdominal area.
The experts were especially anxious in certain cellular
receptors in the women's fat tissue which act as docks for
a chemical called adenosine and curb fat collapse.
Results of belly fat
Barakat and colleagues established that the plump black
women had more adenosine receptors in their deep abdominal
fat than the plump white women.
"The findings don't fully explain why weight loss
may be stiffer for chubby black women than for chubby white
women"Medical Experts said after the study.
"No doubt these findings will be helpful in designing
new strategies for the control and preventions of obesity
in [African-American women] and other women as well,"
write Barakat and colleagues.
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