Ctrclckws wrote:
In times past, food was not so easy to obtain, and getting it used much more energy in comparison.
Now, jobs are not as movement oriented for many people and higher calorie snack are available.
And that's why I am twice the weight I should be.
Recently I came across a new idea about the issue of weight and it's excess. Some thirty years ago biologists began researching the whole 'thing' about weight and not necessarily in humans. Some rather odd things began to emerge from the research. This sparked the interests of certain members of the medical community. Some new insights began to emerge that is beginning to make some real sense.
For a moment lets take a look at something that we ALL have noticed and yet w have never really though about this to any real degree, yet this is what is coming out with the research and the shifting thoughts that science has begun to assemble.
First 'fact' that everyone of us has seen in our lives. There are people who live their lives and eat anything and everything and they simply stay at a certain weight and never get fat. It is true, these are NOT the norm, but lets face it, they are both in the minority and they are just an anomaly.
Second, most people as they age tend to gain weight. It is clearly something that happens.
What science has discovered (and this is a direct link to diabetes), most new born humans do not have issues with getting what is called "getting over weight". This is where the research lead these science people (as well as medicine). What is the essential difference between the babies and other humans. It is the way babies metabolize food. Babies need to stay warm or bad things happen. So new borns and young babies use food to generate heat to live, instead of storing the food as 'fat'. This is directly related to insulin and food storage of the body.
You may have herd or read about this and it is getting more and more traction in the medical community. There is now a shift in the thinking and studies are showing this to be factual. People who are like babies have what medicine is referring to as a higher level of BROWN FAT. It is not a huge amount either! A slender person will have about 2 to 5 percent brown fat of the total make up of fat in the body. This is similar to what babies exabit.
As we age, we will drop our brown fat content, not much but a small amount. This lowering causes the retention of more body fat (being called WHITE FAT).
The real point of this is that dieting is not a solution, rather it is to increase the amount of what science is calling brown fat in the body. By increasing the volume of brown fat the body will 'burn' the extra calories and NOT store that food as body fat. Research is continuing and the diabetes/insulin link with the metabolism is becoming clear.
Getting weigh under control is an important goal for all of us, I'm a prime example. In the past ten months I have worked to find a god weight level. At 6' 11 inches I'm experimenting as there are no great targets for me. I know now that 245 pound is too low, and 280 pounds is too much. I'm at 270 and still need to get to about 250 to 260 to be at a good weight. Certain medical issues have shown me what and were to be for my body size (huge!). The big issue for me is getting off my ass and more exercise, which I am now doing.