A diet, high in fats, may lead not only to the gain of weight, due to the excessive intake of calories, but it can affect circadian rhythms, or biological clock of each people.
People, who are suffering from circadian rhythm disorder, are unable to sleep or to wake up at normal hours and to go to work or to school.
Researchers have shown, with the help of lab-rats, that there is a cause-effect relationship between nutrition and the imbalance of the biological clock.
It was tested whether the biological clock affects the way of adiponectin (a protein hormone that regulates several metabolic processes) to the liver.
It was found that the lab-rats fed with low-fat diet, the circadian clock has not been affected, while in lab-rats fed with a high fat content diet, it was a slowing down of the biological clock.
Researchers claim that obesity is established not only because of high fat content, but also because of metabolic disorders.
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