Reasons why people gain weight faster than others

According to a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen, it has been stated that some people have certain types of microbes in the gut that work to harvest nutrients in greater quantity and quality compared to others.

This may be an important step that will lead to understanding why some people gain weight more easily than others while still eating right.

"We may have found the key to understanding why some people gain more weight than others, even when they eat the same amount of food. But this needs further investigation," says Associate Professor Henrik Roager of the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports.

RESEARCH IN FACES

Researchers examined the nutrients left in the feces of a man known as Danes (85) to evaluate the effectiveness of those microbes in absorbing energy from food.

According to the results of the exercise, approximately 40 percent of the participants belong to the group that, on average, have the ability to get more nutrients from food than the remaining 60 percent.

The researchers also found that people who got the most nutrients from whole foods weighed 10 percent more on average, which equates to about 9 kilograms of weight.

So studies have shown that excess weight can be associated with more than the way a person eats good food or the level of exercise he does.

DISTANCE AND TIME OF FOOD IN THE STOMACH

Researchers have also examined the travel time of food in the body in people who all have similar nutritional patterns where they claim that people whose food takes longer to travel get more nutrients from their diet.

However, they further noted that for the participants who had type B stomach bacteria, for whom food takes less time to travel and be digested, they still gained weight. This led them to see that the cause of obesity is not the time that food travels, but the bacteria in the body.