Some elderly people are quite slim and have good body lines when they are young, but after they enter middle age, their bodies start to get fat, and when they get older, their waist and hip circumference are getting bigger and bigger, and their thighs are getting thicker and thicker. What’s going on here? Why do people get fat especially fast when they get old? This problem must be understood clearly, so that you can lose weight more effectively.
Why do people put on weight especially fast when they get old?
1, sleep time is not enough
When people enter middle age, sleep time will slowly become less, especially after entering menopause, many people have insomnia problems. Sleep time every night only four or five hours, in serious cases, into the deep sleep time only two or three hours. Often, they can’t sleep for more than a few hours a night and can only sit with their eyes open waiting for dawn.
This is due to changes in hormone levels in the body, long time insomnia is not regulated, it is easy to lead to obesity. Because the body into a deep sleep state, to secrete enough leptin. Leptin in the body is not enough, will reduce the body fat burning speed, resulting in the accumulation of large amounts of body fat, resulting in the body more and more fat.
2, metabolic rate decreased
When people enter the middle and old age, the body metabolic rate will continue to decline. With the growth of age, the body aging rate will become faster and faster, while the burning rate of sugar and fat will become slower and slower. Furthermore, people always feel physically weak after getting old, so they do not like to exercise, resulting in the accumulation of sugar and fat in the body more and more, over time the waist and abdomen will be full of fat, resulting in the abdomen is getting bigger and bigger.
3, did not pay attention to diet
After entering the middle and old age, many people’s body fat and diet has a lot to do with it. Because after age, the body aging speed will accelerate, while the ability of the digestive system will also decline. If you still eat and drink as much as when you were young, it is easy to lead to the accumulation of energy in the body, once the accumulation of too much energy, it is easy to turn into fat, resulting in body fat.
Therefore, after entering middle and old age, people who do not pay attention to their diet, eat greasy food all day long, and also like to drink alcohol, will gain weight faster. Especially the middle-aged and elderly people who like to eat late night snacks, the waist and abdomen tend to be very obvious fat.
What should the elderly do to lose weight
1, adhere to exercise
Exercise can promote the circulation of the whole body, better discharge the body’s waste and toxins, and reduce the burden on the body. Can also improve the speed of fat burning, thereby reducing the amount of fat accumulation, adhere to the daily exercise body, can make weight lighter, while shaping the body line.
Among them, swimming is a good exercise for weight loss, the summer weather is hot, choose swimming to lose weight the best effect. Because when swimming in the water, the buoyancy of the water, pressure and other obstacles, physical activity needs to consume better energy.
2, learn to drink tea
Many elderly people gain weight and eat too greasy relationship, it is recommended that the elderly who often eat and drink, daily learn to drink tea to relieve grease, to help remove the grease in the intestines. The common greasy tea drinks are pu-erh tea, lotus leaf tea, lemon tea, winter melon tea and so on.
3, get up early and drink a cup of honey water
Many older people abdominal obesity, possibly because of constipation caused by. A large number of stool accumulation in the intestinal tract, was not timely discharge, the abdomen will slowly become larger. In addition, people are old, do not like to exercise, gastrointestinal peristaltic ability to decline, constipation becomes more and more serious, the small stomach will become more and more obvious.
In this regard, it is recommended that the elderly should drink a cup of warm honey water after waking up in the morning to help moisten the intestines, soften the stool and promote fecal discharge. When the stool in the intestinal tract is discharged, the abdomen can slowly become flat.
