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Grease and fat cells: 2 Things to Know
Fat is a word that most of us do not want to hear regularly, especially when it concerns our own body. We associate a fat belly swells, trousers that narrow, less ease in our physical activities and daily life. However, fat plays an important role in several stages that our body goes through every day, and she sides with both positive and negative.
Knowledge of fats with 2 things to know about fat:
1) The fat cells can grow up to 6 times their minimum size
When you eat more calories than you burn the fat cells in your body grow to six times their minimum size, and they begin to multiply ($ 40 billion in an average adult up to 100 billion cells). Everyone has fat cells, they begin to form and take shape before the birth. Around the age of 16, the body fat cells are mature, and then the lifestyle and genes play a role in the gain or loss of weight when you get older.
The fat cells are essential for the survival and assist the body’s energy system (storage and energy management). Simply put, the fat that is not immediately used as energy by the body is stored for later use. If you eat meals high in calories every day and do not burn enough calories (more than you can both eat), your fat cells grow and multiply, causing weight gain.
2) The fat cells secrete extra estrogen in
Bring a few kilograms in excess could also inflict damage on your hormonal balance, leading to a variety of diseases and other health risks. Estrogen, the female hormone is a hormone stockeuse of fat also occurs naturally in small quantities in men. But when you gain weight, estrogen levels increase and other health problems ensue.
Although estrogen is necessary for men (since this hormone regulates a healthy libido, improved brain function (especially memory) and protects the heart), when estrogen levels are too high levels of testosterone decrease, and some men may experience fatigue, loss of muscle toning, a decreased functioning of the reproductive system, and in some cases, an enlargement of the prostates. In other words, there is no beneficial side effects to higher levels of estrogen in men.
Healthy Eating After 50
The healthy diet is essential to any age, but requirements change at each stage. To meet the energy needs after the 50 is necessary to carry a sufficient diet, complete, varied and balanced.
When you reach 50, women enter the menopause or climacteric, which undergo a series of physiological changes as a result of the lack of estrogen. It is at this stage where it is common to weight gain. Body fat undergoes a rearrangement, with higher accumulation in the abdominal area. Also exacerbate health problems such as dyslipidemia and osteoporosis.
To prevent osteoporosis is necessary to maintain a balanced diet rich in calcium, as well as exercise and abstention from alcohol and snuff.
From age 40 decreases the body’s energy needs, therefore, daily calorie intake should be reduced and increasing exercise metabolism to achieve the energy input process. Read the rest of this entry »