People having alcoholism in their family history are subjected to be turned into high-calorie users,just to satisfy their addiction. The United State researchers say that it is a change that might be fueling the obesity trend.

The Washington University team in St. Louis said that because of high dependency on alcohol and excessive junk foods, the same parts of the brain stimulates .It may be because people with an influence to alcoholism are replacing junk food with alcohol. Women are specially effected by this trend.

Also Richard Grucza, gave an statement in the study published this month in the Journal Archives of General Psychiatry that "Today our foods contains more calories than the food they ate in the decade of 1970 to 1980.anyhow it also consists of  the different types of calories--a mix of sugar, fats and salt-- that are generally called as reward centers in the brain."
He continued that "In the brain drugs & alcohol produce a same affect at same parts and our thinking was that because stimulation is in the same part of the brain,over consumption of those foods might be greater in people with a predisposition to addiction."
Grudge and his team compared the alcoholism addiction and obesity trend from the national surveys conducted in 1991, 1992,2001 and 2002.Approximately 79.900 people were the part of those two surveys .
They analyzed that in 2001 and 2002, those women having alcoholism as their family history were having 48.9% more chances to suffer from obesity than those who are not having alcoholism family history.Men do have chances too, but to a lower degree.
Grucza said that the results suggested by research may be due to changes in the environment, such as increased dependence on junk food. The study is conducted to find the inter-relationship between alcohol addiction and obesity,especially for females. This link may also be used to explain the increase in obesity in the United States, which increased from 15.5 % to 33.7 %  of the population in 1970 and in 2004.
Pharmaceutical companies are also analyzing this alcohol-overeating link, and wishing to reach the U.S. huge potential mark a potentially for obesity drugs.
In the start of this month, Orexigen Therapeutics and Takeda Pharmaceutical , supported by the U.S. panel boards for the diet drug Contraves, by combining Naltrexone (used to combat addiction to alcohol and drug addiction) and Bupropion ( an antidepressant). The drug is intended to guide the cravings, control appetite and increase metabolism.
After approval by the U.S. Food Administration, the drug will be the first pill of the decade for weight loss, and definitely a new addition in today's health and wellnessindustry.

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