Welcome to the 12th issue of Mrs. Ke's Happy Life
Presumably, many girls have had the experience of pulling their other half to accompany themselves to lose weight, which is called:
"Blessed are shared, and difficulties are shared." Supervise each other and make progress together! ”
However, when you worked together for a month, the result was...
How can this be? Obviously eat less and move a lot, why do girls lose weight slowly?
Today, Dr. Ke will talk about the little mystery.
As we all know, fat is essential for human survival, it breaks down to produce energy, and provides a warming effect.
However, scientific analysis has found that women have 6% to 10% more body fat than men, and under the same BMI conditions, women have higher body fat rates than men, and women's fat is more likely to be distributed under the skin [1].
Why?
In fact, this phenomenon is determined by the special physiological laws of women: for women, after entering puberty, the body begins to store fat, prepare for future fertility and breastfeeding, and maintain it into adulthood, which leads to differences in body fat rates between men and women.
In Mrs. Ke's words, it is: "Even if we lose weight, we girls lose at the starting line!" ”
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In addition to being related to the physiological rules of girls, men are relatively thin thanks to the testosterone hormone in the body.
Testosterone is an anabolic steroid hormone in the human body, the main component of androgens [2], it can increase protein synthesis and the proportion of "lean body mass" (that is, fat-removing weight), but also improve resting metabolic rate, making it easier for men to burn calories.
Moreover, men's muscles are also one of the advantages.
Studies have shown that the body's muscle content has gender differences after the age of 8, and the muscle mass of all parts 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 that illustrate that women's resting metabolic rate is lower than that of men [4], simply put, that is, men who lie still consume more energy than women.
It seems that both in resting and exercising, the rate of metabolism in men is faster than that of female students.
So, in general, when it comes to weight loss, men are indeed "blessed".
(Overweight boys see here please reflect on yourself)
"Keep your mouth shut and open your legs" and "eat three points and seven points" These truths, I believe that you weight loss people understand. (Of course, if you don't do it, it's another story)
In addition to these two points, Dr. Ke is here to quietly tell you 3 effortless tips to make weight loss more effective.
1. Regular work and rest
As we all know, "night owls" are more or less plagued by endocrine disorders. The important hormone "leptin" in our brains 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 reduce weight [5]. Staying up late not only affects health, but also leads to fat accumulation due to the influence of leptin secretion.
Therefore, friends who want to lose weight must go to bed early and get up early, eat on time, and maintain the normal metabolism of fat in order to lose weight quickly!
2. Don't always stay in a warm room
When the body is cold, the role of brown adipose tissue that can produce heat is enhanced, and while keeping cold, it can also burn excess fat and sugar to generate heat, preventing excessive fat storage in the body [6]. (So winter is actually a good season for weight loss!) ）
In a warm room, the mechanism of regulating heat dissipation in the human body will be affected, which is not conducive to heat consumption.
3. Drink water before meals
A glass of water before meals increases satiety while replenishing water to various cell tissues throughout the body to help the body consume more energy.
Of course, the real key to weight loss is the reasonable diet and exercise mentioned above. Take action, come on, lose weight people!
Review expert: Wang Wei| deputy chief physician of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University
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