Never take orders from a cookie!
Posts tagged as:
Photo by: hyperscholar.
It is common knowledge that we are getting fatter as a nation. It has long been known that overweight girls tend to mature earlier than thinner girls. But why is that the case? The answer might be in our fat cells.
{ 2 comments }
The stomach is about the size of our fist. Like a water balloon, the stomach expands when we overeat. It can hold up to 33 oz of food when expanded. The problem is that when we constantly overeat, the stomach believes that the expanded state is the new normal. Obese individuals actually have more storage [...]
{ 8 comments }
There are many factors that affect how our bodies convert the food we into energy. Most people, including myself, have no problem with eating enough food to supply our bodies with the energy we need to function (though it is questionable whether we are supplying our bodies with premium or regular fuel). This post is a discussion of the other side of the energy equation: other than fat storage for excess calories, how are the calories distributed inside our bodies?
{ 5 comments }
Did you know that being overweight or obese decrease the amount of testosterone in a man body? Testosterone is as important to a man as estrogen is to a woman. This hormone that the male bodies produce gives them the physical upper hand over women by giving the males more muscle mass and less fat storage capacity. But by being overweight or obese, men weaken their physical advantage.
{ 6 comments }
Men have only 26 billion fat cells in their bodies. That sounds weird, using the word “only.” Women, on the other hand, have 35 billion fat cells in our bodies. In addition, the fat cells in a woman”s body are 5 times larger than a man”s (more room for storage!).
How dieting impact our fat cells
Dieting shrinks the size of our fat cell, not decrease its number. However, most people end up starving themselves, eating poor nutritional foods, or not strength training (sometimes all three) when dieting. So what happens when you lose weight? You end up losing precious metabolically active muscle.
{ 9 comments }
