Our habitual thinking: don't eat after eight in the evening.
With the global obesity problem becoming more and more serious, scientists have done a lot of long-term and developmental research on obesity, fat and weight loss. Researchers keep pointing out the iron law of weight loss: obese people want to lose weight effectively, and it is best not to eat at night. There are many versions of this "food restriction" time for weight loss. The initial study concluded that you should not eat any food after 9 pm. When people are convinced of this concept, new sayings such as "Don't eat after 8 pm" and "Don't eat three hours before going to bed" emerge one after another.
In addition to authoritative research conclusions, obese people also regard stars as "inspirational sisters" to lose weight and learn their successful models of losing weight crazily. One of the secrets of "sexy goddess" Shu Qi to keep her hot figure is not to eat after 6 pm. This is another understanding of the "food restriction" time for weight loss.
"Don't eat at night" is based on low activity and low energy consumption at night. If you eat too much food, the calories that the body can't consume will be converted into fat and stored in the body, which will lead to obesity.
However, this iron law of losing weight not only makes people realize that skipping meals at night will help them lose weight, but also makes people have a deep-rooted subconscious: eating at night will make them fat!
Eating after eight o'clock at night will make you fat. Is that really the case?
American medical experts Aaron Carroll and Professor Rachel freeman refuted the above theory in their published books. They point out that people get fat because they burn more calories than their bodies do. They believe that the decisive factor of obesity is "how much to eat, not when to eat", and people often compare more meals a day with weight gain.
We might as well understand the formation process of fat and fat first, and understand the process of our obesity.
People's obesity is caused by fat, so how is fat formed? Adipose tissue is mainly composed of adipocytes, a small amount of fibroblasts and a small amount of intercellular collagen. When people are 2-5 years old, adipocyte precursors are similar to fibroblasts and can differentiate into adipocytes, while other cells become "stem cells". 1 1- 14 years old, the number of adipocytes no longer increases. So far, the decisive factor of obesity is the increase or decrease of fat cell volume. Because the number of fat cells in different parts is different, the speed of cell growth is also different, which leads to different degrees of obesity in different parts of a person.
The process of getting fat is complicated, but we can briefly describe it. When people eat, food will be converted into energy to maintain the body's metabolic operation and daily activities. Once the ingested food (energy) cannot be consumed by the body immediately, the remaining energy will become neutral fat and be stored in fat cells, which will increase the volume of fat cells and cause obesity.
Scientists at Oregon Medical University observed the relationship between food behavior and weight of monkeys for one year. These most studied monkeys have different diets. Some monkeys eat hot food during the day, while others eat it at night. The calories consumed at night account for 6%~64% of the total calories during the day. The results showed that the body mass index of monkeys who used to eat at night was very close to that of monkeys who ate during the day.
Scientists have confirmed that eating time has no major effect on weight gain. The chief culprit of obesity is the high overall calories in the diet. It can be seen that whether intake and consumption are balanced is the key to decide whether to gain, lose or maintain weight. Every time you eat, your body stores excess calories and converts them into fat.