Women finds hard to lose weight than Men

You watch every morsel you put into your mouth, you hit the gym unflinching regularity and you haven't missed a yoga class in six months. Why aren't you losing weight?

Well all know that exercise alone can't help you lose weight but perhaps your gender is to blame!

A study, carried out at Rowett Institute of Nutrition and health at the university of Aberdeen, has revealed that weight loss is more challenging for women than men. The researchers say this sis because the hormones that regulate the appetite, physical activity and energy expenditure work differently in both sexes. The study was published in the journal Molecular Metabolism and could lead to the development of new sex-specific obesity medications.

The University of Aberdeen team partnered with teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan for the study. They used a mouse model and examined how weight gain differs in each sex based on physical activity and energy expenditure. As part of the study, researches could transform obese male into lean healthy mice, but could not mange the same transformation in female mice.


Current obesity medications stimulate the production of pro-Opiomelanocortin (POMC) peptides in the brain. These peptides are responsible for regulating the appetite, physical activity, energy expenditure and body weight.

But not every POMC neuron performs the same function.

Researchers found that the hormones only regulated appetite in female mice; they did not have the extra benefits.