Welcome to watch “Mrs. Ke’s Happy Life” Issue 12
Presumably many girls have had the experience of pulling their other half to accompany them to lose weight, euphemistically called:
“Share the blessings and share the difficulties. Supervise each other and make progress together!”
However, when you worked together for a month, the result was…
How can this happen? Obviously eat less and move a lot, why do girls lose weight slowly?
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Today, Dr. Ke will talk about the little mystery.
As we all know, fat is essential for human survival, breaking down to generate energy and providing warmth.
However, scientific analysis has found that women have 6% to 10% more body fat than men. Under the same BMI, women have more body fat than men. The rate is high, and women’s fat tends to be more subcutaneously distributed [1].
Why?
In fact, this phenomenon is determined by the specific biological laws of women: in women, after puberty, the body begins to store fat in preparation for future childbirth and breastfeeding, and Maintained into adulthood, which led to differences in body fat percentages between men and women.
In Mrs. Ke’s words, it is: “Even to lose weight, we girls also lose at the starting line!”
(Source: Internet)
In addition to being related to girls’ physiology, men’s relative thinness is also due to the testosterone hormone in their bodies.
Testosterone is an anabolic steroid hormone in the human body and the main component of androgens[2].It can increase protein synthesis and “lean body mass” ” (that is, fat-free body weight), and also increases resting metabolic rate, making it easier for men to burn calories.
And one of the advantages is that men have more muscle.
Studies have shown that there are gender differences in human muscle content after the age of 8. The muscle mass of each part of the male body is greater than that of women of the same age [3], and the energy consumption during exercise is naturally different. . There are also studies showing that women’s resting metabolic rate is lower than men’s [4]. Simply put, men consume more energy than women when they lie down.
It seems that both at rest and during exercise, men’s metabolism is faster than women’s.
So, in general, men are indeed “blessed” when it comes to losing weight.
(overweight boys see here, please reflect on yourself)
(Source: Internet)
“Keep your mouth shut and open your legs”, “Eat with three points and seven points”, I believe everyone who loses weight understands. (Of course, it’s another matter if you can do it or not)
In addition to these two points, Dr. Ke here quietly tells you 3 effortless tips to make weight loss more effective.
1. Routine work and rest
As we all know, “night owls” are more or less troubled by endocrine disorders. The important hormone “leptin” in our brain that affects appetite and is involved in fat metabolism is also deeply affected by work and rest. “Leptin” can reduce appetite, increase energy expenditure, and help lose weight [5]. Staying up late not only affects health, but also leads to fat accumulation due to affecting leptin secretion.
Therefore, friends who want to lose weight must go to bed early, get up early, eat on time, and maintain normal fat metabolism in order to lose weight fast!
2. Don’t always stay in a warm room
When the body is cold, the brown adipose tissue that can produce heat is enhanced. While keeping out the cold, it can also burn excess fat and sugar to generate heat and prevent the body from storing excess fat[6] ]. (So in fact, winter is a good season to lose weight!)
Staying in a warm room for a long time will affect the body’s mechanism of regulating heat dissipation, which is not conducive to heat consumption.
3. Drink water before meals
A glass of water before meals can increase satiety and add water to all cells and tissues in the body to help the body consume more energy.
Of course, the real key to losing weight is the reasonable diet and exercise mentioned above. Take action, come on, lose weight!
Image source: Zhanku Hailuo
Reviewer: Wang Wei｜Deputy Chief Physician of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University
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[3] Zhang Meizhi, Xi Huanjiu, Baima Duoji, Zhong Hua, Li Wenhui, Lu Po. Gender differences in muscle content of various parts of the body of Tibetan children and adolescents in Tibet[A]. Chinese Anatomy Society. China The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Anatomical Society Abstracts [C].2012:1.
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