title: [A new hypothesis about the role of water in the mechanisms of morbid obesity formation].
abstract: For the first time a comparative analysis is performed for water and fat metabolism in human bodies. In light of known data from the scientific literature on the interconnection of biosynthesis processes of water and palmitic acid, a hypothesis on water and fat mutual circulation in the human body is discussed. It is suggested that one of the possible reasons of morbid obesity may lie in the excessive activation of a system of the endogenous water biosynthesis (that results in the excessive enhancement of the fatty acids biosynthesis) owing to the chronic shortage of the water introduced from the outside. An assumption that the adult morbid obesity can arise as a delayed consequence of the pathological situation of shortage of liquid occurring in early childhood is discussed.
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Deshcherevskaia
authors.forename: N O
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Deshcherevskaia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D014867:Water