A recent research has revealed that teenagers who are obese have a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis as an adult. The study has, for now, been limited to teenagers, and no association has been found between body weight during childhood and adulthood and MS.

For the sake of research 238,000 women for studied for 40 years and it was confirmed that women who were obese at the age of 18 were twice more likely to develop MS as an adult, than women who were slim at the same age.

The research was carried out by the Harvard School of Public Health and borrowed data from a larger diet, lifestyle and health study. During the study, as many as 593 women were diagnosed with MS.

Although the results are being considered much valuable and a step closer to knowing a little more about one of the more difficult to understand conditions, further research is required to confirm them.