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- Medical Video: How to Flatten Your Belly in 10 Days
- Women's bodies store more fat than men
- The more women age, the faster they get fat
Medical Video: How to Flatten Your Belly in 10 Days
Women are fatter faster than men? You may have heard this a lot. As age gets older, many adults become overweight, especially in women. You may often find middle-aged women who have fatter bodies than men of their age. However, do you know why this happened?
Women's bodies store more fat than men
WHO has reported that obesity rates are higher in women compared to men, even reaching twice as high as men. This might be caused by food intake and activity level. But more than that, it turns out this is due to the arrangement in the woman's body itself. One of them may be because a woman's body is able to store more fat than men.
In fact, a woman's body consists more of fat, while a man's body consists more of muscle. This happens because men have more testosterone than women. This is a genetic factor.
Because more male muscle mass, men's calorie needs are more than women. This makes men less troublesome if they eat too much. Unlike women who have less caloric needs. So, if women eat just a little more, this can make women experience weight gain quickly.
In addition, the study also found that there are parts of the brain that contribute to women's weight gain more easily. There are parts of the brain that regulate how the body uses calories from the food we eat and this part is different between women and men. Cells in this part of the brain make important brain hormones called proopiomelanocortin peptides (POMC). This peptide is responsible for regulating appetite, physical activity, energy expenditure, and weight.
The more women age, the faster they get fat
Another study published in the journal Diabetes also helps explain why women are more likely to gain weight than men. Research involving mice showed that female mice with a high fat diet had higher enzyme activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (aldh1a1), so they could store more fat around the stomach (visceral fat), compared to male mice with a high fat diet. You need to know that visceral fat is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart disease.
Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 enzyme is an enzyme involved in fat production and is found in mice and also humans. The increase in aldh1a1 enzyme makes women fatter faster than men, even though both of them have a high-fat diet.
The levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (especially) enzymes increase in women who have menopause because estrogen levels decrease. Yes, high levels of estrogen can block the work of this enzyme. Thus, young women with high estrogen levels may be more difficult to gain weight compared to menopausal women.
