Anti aging care in general speaks of maintaining the basics of energy balance. You gain, lose weight, or even maintain weight based on the principles of energy balance. A person needs to estimate daily caloric expenditures to help evaluate the amount of calories being expended in a day. Metabolic and physical activity energy constitutes over 90% of an individual’s energy expenditure. After you eat a meal, your body only requires less than 10% out of your total energy expenditure to digest, absorb, and process the food.
Are you fat?
Stepping on a scale to measure your body weight in pounds or kilograms does not totally specify the amount of water, muscle, or fat in your body. A fat free body consists of water, minerals, and proteins. These are found in the lean tissues, bones, and muscles. The body of a healthy adult is normally consists of 60% water, 6% to 22% protein, and 3% minerals. The rest of the weight is already fat.
Health experts usually determine the body fat percentage to assess if an individual is fat or not. The average healthy young woman has more fat than the average healthy young man does. The reason for this is that the fat among women is needed for their hormonal and reproductive processes. Even if some individuals gain fat, it does not necessarily mean that the fat will cause health problems. The percentages of the fat must be determined first to know if the person is healthy, overweight, or obese.
Body fat information for anti aging care
Body fat is less dense than lean tissues or water. Extra fat makes the body more buoyant. The distribution of the body fat may be seen as risks for the person’s health. Men and women with large deposits of body fat at their abdomens tend to have higher blood cholesterol levels and higher risks to developing diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. The obese abdominal cells are likely to release inflammatory compounds into the blood that fat cells located in the hips or thighs areas. Excessive amounts of fat promote cardiovascular disease and influence the blood glucose metabolism. There could be a link between abdominal fat and development of chronic diseases.
In your anti aging care, you need to lessen abdominal fat. Men and women, as they grow older, usually deposit fat in their abdominal regions. This increases waist circumference and makes them look apple or pear shaped.
Why do you gain fat?
The answer is really simple. The principle of energy balance states that the body gains fat when it has excess of energy and loses weight when energy intake is less than what is required. The set point theory suggests that once the level of body fat reaches its set point, the metabolic rate and other internal mechanism maintains the degree of fatness. Any excess of calories from carbohydrate, protein, fat, and alcohol would result to weight gain.
High fat diets are usually associated with overeating and gaining body fat. An ounce of fat supplies more than twice the number of calories as an ounce of carbohydrate or protein. The body stores more fat when the excess of calories is being supplied by dietary fat than carbohydrate or protein.
Important things to remember for your anti aging care
Exercise retains lean tissue and builds muscle mass. This may stabilize or increase body weight. Don’t get alarmed with your weight.
References
Alters, S. & Schiff, W. (2009). Essential concepts for healthy living.Sudbury, Ma: Jones andBartlettPublishers.
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