In addition to eating, these things are also the root cause of your weight gain

"I gain three pounds during every festive season." After the National Day holiday, many people said that they could not resist the temptation of delicious food and gained weight without realizing it. They no longer dared to eat and gain weight. In fact, in addition to eating, there are some other causes of obesity that are easily overlooked.

Bad mood affects fat metabolism

Everyone has bad moods sometimes. Most people think that a bad mood affects appetite and people cannot gain weight. In fact, this is not the case.

A bad mood can easily affect the function of the liver, the organ for fat metabolism, making it unfavorable for fat metabolism. High stress can weaken the spleen meridian, reduce the body's ability to regulate water and metabolism, and easily cause edema. When people feel sad and depressed, the level of the stress hormone cortisol in the body will increase, which will affect the endocrine system. People who are stubborn and nitpicky usually have small emotions and a relatively strong sense of frustration. People with this personality have poor metabolism, are often troubled by constipation, have weak spleen meridians, and gain weight unknowingly in distress. In addition, because stress hormones are out of balance when one is in a low mood, this has a great impact on appetite. One may suffer from loss of appetite or a significant increase in appetite. Many people compensate for their damaged emotions by overeating, and they seem to think that they can fill their souls by filling their stomachs.

Tip: Don’t let negative emotions control your body. Relax and give yourself a break. Face problems with an optimistic attitude and try to think from a different perspective when encountering unhappy things. Change the habit of venting dissatisfaction through overeating, and find suitable ways to make yourself happy according to your interests, such as listening to some favorite music, making some handicrafts, playing a game of ball, taking a short trip without any preparation, etc.

Lack of sleep inhibits the secretion of leptin

As the pace of life quickens, many urbanites, especially young people, are invisibly deprived of sleep due to various factors. In big cities, people with insomnia account for one-third of outpatient visits to neurology departments, and sleep disorders have become a social phenomenon. A survey by the National Sleep Foundation of the United States shows that 38% of people wake up uneasily at least a few days a week, 32% wake up frequently, 21% have difficulty falling asleep, 21% wake up early and cannot fall asleep again, and 7% receive insomnia medication several times a month.

Lack of sleep will lead to insufficient secretion of growth hormone in the body, causing people to gain weight. Growth hormone is only secreted during sleep at night, and the secretion level is highest 90 minutes after falling asleep. Growth hormone can promote the growth of bones and muscles, accelerate metabolism and the burning of body fat. Healthy young people have more active cell metabolism and consume relatively more energy during sleep, which is the source of the saying that sleeping can help lose weight. Lack of sleep will also affect the human body's biological clock, disrupt people's regular work and rest and eating cycles, and reduce the level of Laptin protein in the blood that suppresses appetite. At the same time, it will also affect the brain's judgment on whether the body has enough food, causing people to have a big appetite and unknowingly consume excess calories at night.

Lack of adequate rest will inhibit the brain from secreting more leptin, which makes people feel full, slow down the body's metabolism, and slow down the decomposition of fat, causing fat to gradually accumulate in the thighs, buttocks, and abdomen. So if you want to stay healthy, you must get enough sleep.

Tip: In order to avoid getting fat and for the sake of health, you might as well start turning off your phone and computer earlier and going to bed earlier starting today. What to do if you have insomnia? You can drink some millet porridge for dinner; drink a glass of milk before going to bed; eat snacks that have a calming effect, such as mulberries, longans, dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, honey, apples, etc. Only by improving your living habits and ensuring good and sufficient sleep can you have a better body shape.

Using air conditioning frequently will make you fat

Air conditioning is undoubtedly the most ideal choice in summer, but can you imagine that your weight gain is related to the cozy and comfortable air-conditioned environment?

If we stay in an environment with a constant temperature of around 20°C for a long time, our body's heat regulation mechanism will be hindered and the body's metabolism will slow down. The rule that people will lose weight in the summer because they sweat a lot and consume a lot of energy is no longer accurate with the intervention of air conditioning. In an air-conditioned room, people will not lose their appetite because the weather is too hot. According to statistics, for every 1°C drop in temperature, the metabolic rate will drop by about 5%, the enzyme reaction in the body will also be slower, and the ability to break down fat and starch will gradually weaken. Relatively speaking, fat and starch accumulate faster. In addition, the air circulation in an air-conditioned room is relatively poor, the indoor oxygen content decreases, and the carbon dioxide increases, which is not conducive to the burning of fat and glucose, but is more conducive to the accumulation of fat. In addition, if people are addicted to a comfortable air-conditioned environment, their exercise will decrease and the energy they consume will also decrease. With so many combined factors at play, it is indeed possible that you will gain weight by frequently using air conditioning in the summer.

Tip: If you want to maintain a good figure, you must insist on regular exercise regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter to make your body sweat more, consume more fat and speed up metabolism. Long-term use of air conditioning and lack of exercise will not only make you gain weight easily, but also cause other air-conditioning diseases. Using air conditioning less appropriately, or setting the air-conditioning temperature closer to the outdoor temperature, can increase the activity of body tissues in consuming fat.

Obesity among relatives and friends is contagious

If your best friend is fat, your chances of becoming obese will increase by 57%. This was the conclusion reached by American researchers as early as 2007.

The results also showed that if the subject's siblings or spouse became obese, his chances of becoming obese would increase by 40% or 37%. If he has a very close fat friend, his chances of becoming fat will increase three times. If his friend gains 7.7 kg, he will gain 2.3 kg. Gender is also closely related to a person's weight gain. Among same-sex friends, if one person gains weight, the probability of his friends gaining weight is 71% higher.

In fact, the "infection" of obesity among relatives and friends is mainly the "infection" of eating and living habits. If you are with friends and relatives who like to eat a lot of meat and fish, you may be subtly influenced and develop similar eating habits to them. When you are with friends who love to eat, you can’t help but have a few bites when you see their good appetite. Your friends will also advise you to eat more. Over time, your appetite will gradually increase, and the number on the scale will also quietly increase. And when I am around fat friends, I also have a mentality of not feeling that I am getting fat.

Tip: If the fat friends around you start paying attention to controlling their diet and exercising, you will also be influenced by their fitness behavior. Therefore, for the sake of your own health and the health of your relatives and friends, you might as well encourage them to exercise and work hard to lose weight. Or you can rely on your own willpower to strictly control your diet and exercise regularly. This will not only ensure your own figure and health, but also infect your relatives and friends with your healthy habits.

Workaholics, beware of becoming fat

White-collar workers who sit in front of computers for long periods of time are often confused about why they gain weight.

The harder people work, the less time they have to exercise. Not only do they lack exercise, they also shorten their meal times in order to squeeze out more time to work, and wolfing down food in a short period of time is not conducive to digestion. At the same time, the busier and more stressed people are at work, the more they eat. Because when people feel stressed, they tend to reduce the psychological burden through delicious food. Many people reach out for various snacks on the table at any time while working.

People who work hard are more "distracted" from eating, feel less full after meals, and eat more food without realizing it. This conclusion comes from an experiment at the University of Bristol in the UK, in which researchers divided the participants into two groups, asking one group to play computer games while eating and the other group to concentrate on eating. The results showed that after 30 minutes, the people who played on the computer ate more snacks than those who concentrated on eating. Moreover, people who played on the computer took longer to remember what they had for lunch.

What are the dangers of obesity?

-Metabolic complications: diabetes, insulin resistance, gout, etc.

-Cardiovascular diseases: hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, venous thrombosis

-Respiratory diseases: asthma, sleep apnea, etc.

-Tumors: esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer, gallbladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, leukemia, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, postmenopausal breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc.

- Osteoarthritis

-Digestive system diseases: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, etc.

- Urinary incontinence

- Reproductive system diseases: menstrual disorders, infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, gestational diabetes, miscarriage, etc.

- Anxiety and depression