您现在的位置是:首页 > 英语视频 > 英语新闻视频 正文 上海研究有助于孩子的遗传性肥胖 2015-08-06来源:和谐英语 A Chinese research team has come up with a way to help people with a rare genetic disorder that gives them an insatiable appetite and leads to obesity. Prader-Willi Syndrome can be fatal, but the researchers say they can help treat the disorder by improving the bacteria in a patient's gastrointestinal tract. ICS reporter Song Wenjing tells us more. It is unclear how many people in China suffer from Prader-Willi Syndrome, but the disease affects between one in 10,000 to one in 15,000 people worldwide. Helping children with the syndrome control their weight has long been a problem. For now, the major clinical treatment methods include the use of drugs to reduce appetite, gastric by-pass surgery, or a long-term low calorie diet. But none of them is completely effective. Zhao Liping, Professor from Shanghai Jiaotong University said:"If you reduce the size of their stomach, but their hunger feeling is always there. If you don't control them, they will eat until burst to their stomach. It's really dangerous. You can control their body weight with low calorie diet, but it's very difficult to maintain, because their hunger feeling is always there." Over the past five years, a team led by researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Guangdong Province Women and Children Care Hospital have been working with a group of obese children - 17 with genetic disorders and 21 who are simply overweight. They found that children with the syndrome have the same characteristics of imbalanced intestinal microorganisms as those with simple obesity. That prompted them to use a diet therapy, combining whole grains, traditional Chinese medicinal foods, prebiotics, as well as vegetables, toufu and soy beans. "This diet contains large amount of non-digestible but fermentable carbohydrates. That means we include in the diet many carbohydrates human cannot digest, but some good bacteria can use them to grow, which can reduce inflammation and reduce hunger feeling. For example, one volunteer lost his weight from 140 kilograms to 72 kilograms," said Zhao. Zhao's research findings have been published in the July edition of EBioMedicine, a medical journal co-sponsored by Cell and The Lancet. This is the first successful attempt to control weight of genetically obese children. Zhao says the next step is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this dietary approach with researchers from the United States. 本栏目更多同类内容 扫码关注和谐英语微信公众号,第一时间获取最新学习资料 或公众号搜索myhxen 上一篇 欧元区经济向上 但问题依旧 下一篇 发改委:下半年价格有望低位趋稳回升 相关文章 新技术有助于减少温室气体排放中国肥胖儿童数量最多国际儿童节:促进孩子们的福利中国人向医生求助肥胖治疗佛教哲学有助于现代困境研究表明中国过度使用抗生素屠呦呦获奖促进中国中医药研究上海用艺术品来教孩子蓬勃发展跨境电子商务有助于稳定外贸移动应用程序可以帮助自闭症孩子沟通