Birth Control Pills Not Proven Cause Obesity
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Birth control pills are the types of contraception that many elected women of reproductive age to prevent and control pregnancies. Although, hormonal contraception so often complained as triggers weight gain.
A scientific research conducted on monkeys and published in the journal Human Reproduction showed that birth control pills do not cause obesity. Although monkeys are not humans, but researchers say the rhesus macaque monkey used in this research has a reproductive system that is almost identical to humans.
For eight months the monkeys were given oral contraceptives. At the beginning of the study, half of the monkeys had normal weight and the remainder included in the category of obesity. The researchers gave doses of birth control pills equal weight so that the monkey is similar to the dose women who took birth control pills to prevent pregnancy.
The researchers then documenting weight, body fat, food intake, physical activity and muscle mass. At the end of the study, monkeys were in the obese group lost 8.5 percent weight and 12 percent body fat. The researchers speculate that birth control pills increase metabolism.
Meanwhile, the monkeys in the normal weight group did not experience weight gain. From the results of such research can be concluded that the fear of weight gain caused by birth control pills is only a myth, because the activity of monkeys in research remains the same as before taking the pill.
Yet experts say that the monkeys in this study were in the laboratory which is all controlled. The same can not be done on humans, let alone every individual is unique.
Weight gain in users of birth control pills is generally only temporary. This is because the body is adapting to the drugs being taken.
