Medically supervised weight control schedule helps in enriching the bones with mineral contents among teenagers. The obese teenagers who participated in such a program were successful in loosing weight in a systematic way. A year long program at the ‘Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’ established these findings with sufficient evidences.
According to the researchers, the adolescent if the most critical stage of life in which bones take shapes and become healthier in later years. Findings of this research study were published in the current issue of the journal “Obesity”. It involved 62 teenagers with an age range of 9-17 years. The study with in built trials aimed at exploring the effectiveness of a “comprehensive, family based, behavioral weight control program”. Effects of the drug,”Sibutramine”, a weight loss drug, were specifically observed in this study.
Researchers explained that in general obesity is directly related with the ‘high bone mineral density’. When an adolescent individual goes on reducing its weight the ‘bone mineral density’ also goes decreasing. It is mainly because of the reduction in the content of the minerals in bones.
Study results were however surprisingly in contrast to this conventional understanding. Researchers observed that despite the loss of weight in teenagers the bone mineral density was increasing.