Study highlights iodine deficiency problem The conventional view
is that obesity is the result of eating too much and/or not
being active enough. I don’t quite subscribe to this view
myself, as I see body weight as the result of a complex
interplay between a variety of factors including the form
calories come in the diet and hormonal factors. One key hormone
here is insulin – the chief hormone responsible for the
accumulation of fat in the fat cells. Get insulin levels down
and you have a pretty decent chance of losing weight. Other key
hormones that play a part in body weight maintenance include
those hormones secreted by the thyroid gland. The most plentiful
thyroid hormone is thyroxine (also known as T4). Thyroxine,
essentially, stimulates the metabolism. Some of it, in health,
is converted into a related hormone known as lio-thyronine (T3)
that is more metabolically active. Should the body be deficient
in thyroid hormone and/or the tissues be resistant to thyroid
hormone (this latter idea I controversial)