(Adnkronos) - Ha fatto tappa a Milano la palestra simbolica di ‘The impossible gym ‘ simbolo e rappresentazione della 'resistenza del corpo', che ostacola la perdita di peso e delle difficoltà che le persone con obesità vivono ogni giorno. L’iniziativa si inserisce nella campagna ‘Perdere peso non dipende solo da te. Il tuo corpo può fare resistenza’, realizzata da Lilly con il patrocinio dell’associazione pazienti Amici Obesi Onlus.
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00:00The campaign to lose weight does not depend only on you, your body can do resistance,
00:10made by Lilly with the sponsorship of the association Patients, Friends, Obesity and Onlus,
00:15made in Pamilano, Lombardy, where 3.5 million people are overweight or obese.
00:20The initiative is focused on the Impossible Gym, which visibly represents the daily challenges
00:27of those who live with obesity.
00:29Inside the premises, gym equipment made unusable by yellow elastics symbolize the resistance
00:34of the body to weight loss, a biological phenomenon that makes it particularly difficult
00:39to lose weight and maintain it over time.
00:42The body interprets weight loss as a threat and does everything to try to stop weight loss
00:49and even regain weight.
00:51We have neuro-hormonal factors, we have hormones that increase hunger,
00:56reduce satiety and at the metabolic level we have a reduction of energy expenditure.
01:02So the patient finds himself burning less and having more hunger and less satiety.
01:07And these three factors together determine the weight loss, which should not be seen
01:12as a lack of willpower or guilt, but as a consequence of biological factors.
01:18Today in Italy, an adult over 2 is overweight, about 23 million, or obese, about 6 million.
01:25That is to say, 12% of the population.
01:28Despite this, obesity is not recognized as a pathology in our country.
01:32Recognizing obesity as a pathology would have two important effects.
01:38The first, the other patient in his recognition of being sick and therefore not feeling guilty
01:45for not being able to lose weight or for having that condition of excess weight,
01:51and the second, to have the recognition that he has reached that weight due to a pathology
01:56that in fact we have learned to know in these years as such,
02:01discovering all those that are the biological mechanisms at the basis of weight gain.
02:07On the other hand, it would be important to have recognition also from the point of view of the approach to treatment.