Among the great resolutions of the beginning of the year, the first is undoubtedly that of losing weight. During the first weeks of this new year, Why Doctor will help you succeed in this difficult and perfectly achievable project: to lose 10% of your body weight. And first, to lose weight better, you have to understand why you are putting on weight. What our Cro-Magnon ancestor had perfectly integrated
Because the organization is emerging, for most French people, from an impressive gastronomic debauchery. Because this phase of national bulimia occurs in French people who are – very often rightly – too fat, for nearly 60% of them. So the door is wide open to all the fanciful methods which women’s gazettes are crazy about and which inevitably lead to the yoyo phenomenon.
The body is smarter than diets. The Yoyo effect: lose 1 kilo in a few days and regain two in a few weeks, as soon as the will or vigilance slackens and the body, to compensate for the period of famine it has just experienced, hurries to stock up .
The difficult quest for weight loss
Half of Europeans would like to lose weight … Without achieving it despite dozens of theories, mainly based on deprivation, but which do not take into account the intelligence of the human body.
It is important to understand that we are the survivors of the great famines of prehistoric times and no doctor in the world will be able to erase this evidence. Mankind has spent most of its existence solving two problems: how to find food, and especially how to respond to the inevitable periods of food shortages.
Modern man takes care (imperfectly) of the first; physiology has been able to respond to the second thanks to a microscopic storage unit: the adipocyte.
The fat cell is intelligent
Adipocyte: this is how the cell which makes up fat is called, and which has long been considered a “good fat cell” without interest … Which is unfair and above all inaccurate. Discovering how it works has made it possible to understand the mechanism of excess weight gain, and that fat is not stored only to disrupt our silhouette on the beaches.
The secret is in the circuit of our energy. This comes from sugar, the “essence” of our muscles. Without sugar, man would be immobile! Everyone has also seen, in the event of a pump stroke, the almost miraculous effect of a lump of sugar … But it stores very poorly and in very small quantities: after a few minutes of effort, there are more available. The hunter of prehistoric times should have found himself helpless, when the stalking of his game lasted for hours. Of course, nature had given him the spontaneous taste of sweet; you have noticed that when you are hungry, you rarely want to eat broccoli. Sugars which also cause an immediate reaction of pleasure, which is undoubtedly the reason why they are often abused.
But above all, the body knows how to store sugar in the form of … fat! The only downside to this perfect mechanism: the body was designed to withstand the starvation of the dawn of time, so it stores very easily, but hates removing it. He does this very sparingly. For the survival of the species, it was necessary that it be easier to gain weight than to lose weight, and storing sugar in the form of fat is a fundamental act of our survival, placed under the responsibility of a very particular cell that s ‘calls an adipocyte.
Our Cro-Magnon ancestor therefore remains the model to follow.
He was not obese for two reasons: he ate less than us (or with more difficulty) and at home, the practice of jogging was a necessity: endless hours of hunting in the wild, the ancestor of fitness. However, he didn’t know what eating a balanced diet meant. His descendants therefore have no excuse: to eat (a little less), better and above all to increase, thanks to physical activity, the “pull” of the human machine, nothing very complicated to make half of them smile. Europeans whose overweight is becoming an obsession.
“We are the survivors of the great famines of prehistoric times and no doctor in the world will be able to erase this evidence. “
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