A Multi-Faceted Review of Obesity and its Application in Treatment Regimens
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Valdez, Lourdes
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2019
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en_US
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Obesity is a major contributor to several health conditions including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension. Over the past three decades, obesity rates have nearly tripled, leading to an obesity epidemic. Current efforts to treat obesity focus solely on nutrition and exercise. While this may help reduce adiposity in many individuals it fails to aid others. This is because many weight loss regimens ignore alternative etiologic factors and fail to provide a robust treatment plan. This paper will focus on the five etiologic factors in obesity that are often overlooked such as gut microbiota, food addiction, adenovirus-36, genetics, and stress, and will evaluate their effects on obesity both independently and in conjunction. This paper will further outline possible treatment plans to aid in the mitigation of these effects in relation to obesity that result from the compilation of several etiologic factors creating an obesogenic cycle.
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