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In addition to anorexia and bulimia, another eating disorder that can lead to obesity, this is known as nocturnal eaters syndrome and is related intimately to the reduction of daily activity.

The night eaters syndrome was first described in 1955 by Dr. Albert Stunkard, who attempt to determine the feeding behavior in obese patients who failed to lose weight, even while under dietary treatment.
Features

During the day, eat a small amount of food, but during the night, the tendency is to eat very large quantities but not very frequent but all meals, people with this syndrome, between afternoon and evening consume about 70% of their total daily intake.

Those who suffer, they experience strong cravings each night to eat, usually do not eat breakfast or a very weak, his appetite begins to emerge from the afternoon, but the critical moment occurs once you have gone to bed .
Treatment

The treatment of this disease should cover several areas, the dietitian will use the food log to determine a viable treatment to follow, but also necessitates the provision of a psychologist.

To get to the source of the problem and appropriate therapy, the psychologist may also request a detailed record of food eaten every night, and the sensations and feelings that are experienced at that time.

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat that can be harmful to health. The body mass index (BMI) is a simple indicator of the relationship between weight and height that is commonly used to identify overweight and obesity in adults. Is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilos by the square of height in meters (kg/m2).

Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk factor of death in the world. Die each year at least 2.8 million adults as a result of being overweight or obese. Moreover, 44% of the burden of diabetes, 23% of the burden of ischemic heart disease and between 7% and 41% of the burden of some cancers are attributable to overweight and obesity.

What causes overweight and obesity?

The fundamental cause of overweight and obesity is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and expended. In the world, has produced:

* An increase in intake of energy-dense foods that are high in fat, salt and sugars but low in vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients, and
* A decline in physical activity as a result of the increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work, new modes of travel and increasing urbanization. Read the rest of this entry »

Most women should begin to control their weight during pregnancy to avoid gaining weight too much and risking their babies, experts said. A U.S. team found that women who gained more weight during pregnancy gave birth to heavier babies, putting them at greater risk of becoming obese adults. Large birth weight also more predisposed to cancer, allergies and asthma.

“The study suggests that the best time to start preventing obesity would indeed before birth, with a focus on weight gain and diet of the mother during pregnancy,” said Dr. David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital Boston, who worked on the study published in The Lancet.

Ludwig and Janet Currie, an economist at Columbia University in New York, looked at data on all babies born in Michigan and New Jersey for a period of 15 years between 1989 and 2003. The authors analyzed 1.1 million women and 513,500 babies.
“Women who gained 50 pounds (24 kilos) had twice the risk of giving birth to a baby with high birth weight, compared to up 20 pounds (10 kilos),” said Ludwig. Babies born to women who gained more than 50 pounds during pregnancy were about 150 grams heavier than babies of women who gained 20 pounds or less. Read the rest of this entry »