Do you have any skinny dead people around you who eat at all times but have never seen them fat? What kind of avatar do you often use in WeChat?
Whenever Dr. Clove sees his thin friends eating hot pot/barbecue/crayfish/dessert in the middle of the night, he wishes to send them to have a physical examination to see where all the food he eats has gone and why he is still so thin.
The BBC has really done such an experiment: ten thin people who claim to be “not fat” are brought together, and they are ordered to eat a lot of food and not to exercise every day to see if their bodies will change what.
In order to popularize science and relieve hatred, Dr. Clove quickly watched the documentary again.
Before the experiment began, the ten people were like this:
As a result, they need to eat an average of 5,000 calories of food every day, specifically:
At the same time, they are also forbidden to exercise and can walk up to 5,000 steps a day.
In this regard, they are also divided into two groups:
This kind of experiment will continue for four weeks. After four weeks, if someone gains more than 10% weight, they will be eliminated.
Knowing your curiosity, Dr. Clove said the result first: Four weeks later, all ten skinny people gained weight.
Therefore, as long as the calories consumed exceed the daily needs and there is no way to exercise to consume them, individuals will become fat.
[No matter how to eat, you are not fat] This matter does not exist at all.
However, the magic is that some of these ten people have gained a lot of weight while others have gained very little because they have also ingested more than twice as many calories as they need.
Some people, such as this Asian elder brother, have gained a lot of weight (gain 8%). However, everyone’s belly has become round and his body shape has not changed. Why?
After measuring the body data of the Asian brother, it was found that only 2% of the weight gained by the Asian brother was fat, while his basic metabolism increased by nearly 30%.
In other words, when you eat something, it becomes fat and hoards it. Some people eat something and their bodies will take the initiative to consume it. It is no secret that thin people are not fat. It is all life.
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Don’t rush to hit Dr. Clove, the secret that thin people are not fat really comes from [fate].
When scientists studied overweight people, they found that obesity is really related to genes. There is such a gene called FTO for short, which specifically manages people’s appetite.
In addition to being fat and thin in body shape, there is another way to divide the world’s people into two types, one is [eating not much when full] and the other is [eating two more when full].
What is more frightening is that this eating habit was established in childhood and is related to this FTO gene.
For example, the two children, after confirming that they were full, were unmoved by the snacks in front of them, while the other ate very happily.
The skinny people who participated in the experiment also said one after another [Yes, I won’t eat again when I am full]:
For such people, as long as they are full, the world’s chicken chops, barbecue crayfish, chocolate cake ice cream… will have no attraction to them at all.
However, those who [help me up and I can still eat] need to spend a lot of willpower to fight against [greedy]. Once the struggle is lost, they will consume extra calories and naturally gain weight.
Moreover, more often than not, these [crazy eating but not fat] people are not eating as crazy as you think.
In addition to stopping immediately when they were full, there were even two people in the experiment who could not overeat because… their bodies did not allow them.
It is true that once the calorie intake exceeds the limit, they will start vomiting. Although they also want to eat, their bodies will force them not to consume too many calories in excess of their needs.
However, for those who lose weight simply by dieting, even if they have eaten enough food after losing weight, their bodies will continue to send out the signal of “I am hungry” and let people continue to eat. Therefore, even if they lose weight successfully, they will easily return to their original weight.
The original number of adipocytes in the body is certain. Once a person starts to get fat, it means that the volume of adipocytes starts to increase. When the volume of adipocytes increases to a certain extent, it can no longer meet the demand of [getting fat], the number of adipocytes will increase.
However, once the amount of fat increases, it will hardly decrease naturally.
This is why fat people still want to eat more calories after losing weight, after all, those extra adipocytes are starving.
The same is true for those who are fatter when they are young and have a higher chance of being fat when they grow up. However, those who are thin when they are young have a greater chance of staying slim when they grow up.
The ten people who participated in the experiment, without exception, were skinny from an early age.
Therefore, in addition to genetic determination and eating habits, your fat and thin are also determined by your brain and body mechanisms.
Finally, one of the most hateful things came: the ten people who took part in the experiment basically recovered their previous weight and body shape in one month without any additional changes after finishing the weight gain experiment for one month.
The conclusion is that without human intervention (no conscious effort to gain weight or lose weight), everyone’s body will set a value for their weight.
Changing this set weight, whether thin people want to get fat or fat people want to get thinner, will be very painful, because your body will always try to bring you back to this set weight.
Does this mean that it is almost impossible to lose weight (or gain weight)? Born fat, can only deserve fat for a lifetime?
In fact, there is no need to be so desperate.
First of all, this body-set weight will also change over time to adapt to changes in your body. When the weight changes and remains long enough, the brain will adjust this set weight due to changes in the body.
Similarly, those who [can eat two more when they are full] do not need to feel desperate because of their genes. They need to get inspiration from the Asian brother in the experiment:
What ordinary people can also do is to improve their basal metabolic rate by strengthening exercise and other means, thus generating more calorie consumption.
Whether it is the arrangement of fate or the deliberate trick of the body, everyone’s body is really not fat if you want to be fat or thin if you want to be thin. After all, we are all flesh and blood, not plasticine.
It is also because of this that you may all be tired of listening to the phrase “eat properly and exercise regularly” is the right way to lose weight (or gain weight). Any attempt to rely on hunger strike, cut off food, or abnormal diet in the hope of seeing a big change in body shape in a short period of time may cause harm to the body.
The next time someone shows off in front of you that they are not fat, there is no need to envy them. After all, only when we are fat can we show that they are thin!