HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Smoking marijuana not relating to obesity: study

By Linda Thrasybule
NEW YORK | September 9, 2011 5: 16 pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - can people, vulnerable to "the munchies" smoke the marijuana, but surprisingly, they are less likely than proposes non-smoking to pack the pounds, a new study from France.
Analyzing data, for more than 50,000 American adults, the researchers found that approximately 14 to 17 percent of people were reported that they smoked pot at least three days a week obese. That compared with 22 to 25 percent obesity among people who said they had used not pot in the past 12 months.
"Initially, we thought that we have a mistake", Dr. Yann Le STRAT is a psychiatrist in the Louis Mourier hospital in Colombes, France said. He and co-author Dr. Bernard Le foll had several times to check the results, to ensure that they were incorrect, said Le STRAT.
Le STRAT "This is only a preliminary earnings," said Reuters Health. "It does not mean that marijuana really help to lose weight, but maybe there's a component that does."
The study, published in the American Journal of epidemiology, contain two surveys of adults in the United States - one about 43,000 people, over 9,300 other respondents. Both had of branches of the US national institutes of health between 2001 and 2003 performed.
The larger the polls not found 14 percent of the pot smokers obese compared to 22 percent, the pot smoking. Also the smaller survey found 17 percent of the pot-smoking obese be compared to 25 percent of the non-smoking.
All respondents two surveys smoked pot between four and seven percent, she said at least three times a week.
Whether she had smoked cigarettes also does not affect the results of obesity.
The researchers consider not whether diet and lack of exercise were different in pot smokers and non-smoking.
According to an another recent poll, from the substance abuse and mental health services administration is pot use on the rise in the United States marijuana 2010 a nearly 18 million Americans a year increase of around 15 million in 2007.
Scientists have the role to block various molecules within marijuana smoke, high feeling, pain, and may be subject to the hunger for food in the rule provoked, explored by using pot.
Cannabinoids, molecules natural signaling chemicals in the body, similar to be believed, key to stimulates appetite. Was so much so that in 2006 a drug rimonabant, called, which is designed to combat cannabinoids, developed.
Rimonabant has been in more than 30 countries-but not in the USA-for the treatment of obesity. But the drug was pulled from shelves two years later by an increased risk of suicide among users.
Whether cannabinoids pot are the only appetite stimulants in smoke, or whether other chemicals for the effect could take into account, remains to be seen, the researchers say.
Dr. Vincenzo Di Marzo, Professor at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry in Pozzuoli, Italy, who was not part of the study, was not in the meantime their results at all surprised. "There is no evidence, that repeatedly body weight can increase use of marijuana."
Di Marzo precautions, which don't, see the study that smoking pot helps you lose weight, but he believes that it is a starting point for future research.
Le STRAT warned against feeling and also experiment with pot as a diet aid.
"I see people with marijuana dependence," explained Le STRAT. "I hope that people do not interpret the results mean that if they use marijuana, they are to lose weight."

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