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It is almost natural, in this period, to wake up a little later (if you can) and then delay dinner, perhaps arriving late in the evening. Just as perhaps, given the yearning for “freedom” (always to be enjoyed with the right precautions) that guides us, the whim of changing eating habits can come.
Well, know that science advises against too sudden changes both inmeal times both in the food quality. There is a risk of a “madness” of the control systems of the fat cells, with consequences on the metabolism and especially on the composition of the fat inside the body. To say it is a research published in Nature.
What if you get high now
The study, conducted by scientists at the University of Texas at Houston, took place in animals focusing on the effects that the alteration of circadian rhythms or changes in the components of the diet can have on particular cells, in practice the progenitors of fat cells. . These are called preadipocytes and then they mature into adipocytes, which have the task of conserving energy in the form of fat.
Well, the progenitors of adipocytes normally, day after day, are transformed. But they experience a regular proliferation if mealtimes are changed, while still eating the things the body is used to. And especially if you start a diet rich in fat or, as mentioned, you change the hours of food intake such as to make you eat during the period dedicated to sleep, the body’s models in terms of production of preadipocytes are altered. And the problems begin.
If the mice eat a lot of fats, the normal genesis of fat cells is altered and, above all, the usual rhythm is altered. Translated, if you overdo it with an unhealthy diet and change the rhythms of meals, the dangers of forming unhealthy adipose tissue increase.
According to scientists, changing the circadian rhythm and eating a high-fat diet over time will deplete healthy fat cells. The result of the process is that the body does not aim to produce new healthy fat cells in particular in the “belly”, with greater possibilities of accumulating fat in other organs, such as the liver (therefore with hepatic steatosis) or muscles.
In short: even in summer we try not to change our habits. and if in the evening we tend to go to the table later, we do not carry the clock too far. This, as well as a diet that deviates from Mediterranean diet and provides a lot of fat, it can lead to problems for well-being over time.
Not all fat is the same
The adipocyte, or the adipose cell, can be of two types: there is the “white” fat which represents the vast majority of the fat present in the body, and that Bruno. The latter keep inside the fat molecules in the form of small independent droplets, and therefore more easily eliminated than the “large” and unique drop of lipids that forms in white cells. Not only.
Brown adipose tissue would have a greater ability to control body weight because its primary task is the production of heat. Brown adipocytes are present in high quantities in the newborn, while they are almost absent in the adult. Unless this is found to work in “extreme” conditions as evidenced by the fact that in some Alaskan lumberjacks, exposed to low temperatures, the presence of brown adipose tissue is very high. D.
we, on the other hand, live in climatic conditions that do not stimulate the process of thermogenesis. The lack of brown cells and their progressive replacement with white adipose tissue could be implicated in the genesis of the many problems related to visceral obesity. In fact, the brown cells ensure a high consumption of energy, especially after having eaten foods very rich in lipids, and therefore very caloric, almost as if they were a sort of internal “regulator” of weight. the white ones, on the other hand, can be metabolically “negative”, when in excess as happens in the case of a prominent “belly”.
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