Obesity in children is caused by lack of muscle

Obesity in children is caused by lack of muscle 

Obesity in children is a problem that affects all races and social classes in the world. Its exact causes are still in discussion, nutritional causes have been proposed, lack of physical exercise, and genetic causes. A recent research claims that childhood obesity may be caused by a lack of muscle.

The problems of obesity in children are caused by less physical activity or metabolic rate low, today there are some methods that seek to give solution to this controversy, a subject of difficult solution.

Children with obesity spend more energy (not less) than their thinner peers, their bodies need more energy bigger, not only to function, but also to support the weight excess, it makes more sense to consider the energy expenditure per kilogram of body mass, according to this thinner children spend more energy even at rest.

This does not mean that children are overweight because they have a low metabolism, the scientist Michael Goran and his colleagues showed that fat tissue consumes only a third of the energy consumed by the muscle fibers and organs such as brain and liver.

This situation provides an answer to the power output but what happens to the energy input?, Scientists from the University of Iowa, studied the feeding of children under 5 for 3 days and calculated how much energy spent.

They concluded that children with obesity ate more, but only in proportion to their size, in fact kilo per kilo of body weight for obese children drank less calories than lean children, another important finding of this study was that obese children consumed more fatty foods.