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Sunday, November 18, 2007
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Obesity Part I: Why Vitamin C, Niacin, and Multivitamins May Help

The body has many parts devoted to the processing of food. As a
result, food processing is subject to multiple regulatory feedback
loops. Working together, these feedback loops regulate body weight.
Malfunctioning of any body part responsible for processing food or
malfunction of any of the feedback loops can throw off body weight on
the high side or the low side. For this reason, there are multiple
causes of obesity and emaciation. I’ll devote several columns to
exploring this complex system.

We live in a world with abundant food. When hunger occurs, food is
easily obtained and people typically eat in response until a natural
feedback loop kicks in to repress the desire to eat. The feeling of
fullness that stops eating is a vital component of the body’s strategy
for maintaining a set weight. It is not, however, the only strategy.
Once eaten, the ingestion of food into the body is not inevitable. A
second vital component to regulate weight is control over the
absorption vs. rejection of food once it has been eaten. All food is
not absorbed. A substantial fraction is excreted as solids. This is
not because the excreted solids are indigestible. Ordinary food is
nearly 100% digestible. Starving people do not excrete solids. Even
fiber is absorbed. The body colonizes bacteria which can break down
fiber. People can digest fiber just like cows. For people, however,
the digestion of fiber is inefficient, and requires a long residence
time in the digestive tract. The body only allows food to reside that
long in the colon when it is starving.

The digestive process is not under conscious control. The regulatory
loops that control the numerous fluids secreted into various parts of
the digestive tracts and that control the mechanical forces that
propel food along the digestive tract are entirely under the control
of the subconscious. This remarkably complex system has some ability
to sort through the food we eat and absorb more of what we need most
while rejecting more of what we need the least. As people age,
problems inevitably arise with one or more aspects of the body’s
complex weight regulation systems. The problems commonly manifest
themselves as obesity or emaciation. Look for yourself inside a
nursing home. How many of the residents appear to be at a healthy
weight?

If you want to maintain a healthy weight, it helps to grow up healthy
and strong, and to efficiently heal any damage life brings to the
digestive tract. The digestive tract is regularly attacked by
microbes, so this is no easy task. I’ve argued in past columns that
vitamin C and niacin have proven power to facilitate wound healing,
and I’ll make the same argument again here. Vitamin C, niacin, and
multivitamins are especially important for children. In addition to
helping to heal wounds from any injuries that toxins or pathogens
cause, extra vitamins help build a healthier digestive tract and
immune system in the first place. With luck, increasing use of vitamin
supplements by children will lead to reduced rates of childhood
obesity.

posted by Steve @ 9:46 PM 1 comments

1. Comments:

At 12:33 PM, Anonymous Jeff Paterson said...

Great post on Obesity I did not know that vitamin c and niacing
might help with obesity.

Vitamin C has always been under rated, growing up my parents
where always big on Vitamin C, my mother said it helped
preventing colds and also good for strong bones and tendons, we
where always encouraged to take vitamin c both in vitamin form
and eat lots of fruits that contained good amounts of vitamin c.

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