Why Are We Growing Fatter?

Recent study conducted on the people on diet has found that out of 100 people, 45 of them have encountered the same problem of weight gaining instead of weight losing. Why is this happening? It all boils to the roles of fats in our body system. Our fats in the body play vital roles in maintaining healthy and radiant skin. Fats also insulate our body organs against shock and help maintaining our body temperature as well as promoting active body cell functions. A layer of fats, known as subcutaneous fat is lined beneath the skin that helps to regulate optimal temperature for all organs in the body, hence people with more fats are more cold resistant than those with less fats. Among all fats, large amount are being stored in the body fat cells as food reservoirs. When we are hungry, our body will induce signals that will trigger the breakdown of fats stored in body fat cells. However during this process, only some of the cellular substances within the fat cells are actually being broken down but not the fat cells themselves. Hence, the number of fat cells will remain constant and they can be replenished later upon consumption of foods by the body. This has explained why our body weight increases rapidly. This phenomena is known as " Rebound". Rebound cases are usually happened on people who take appetite suppressive drugs to reduce their weight. These suppressive drugs will cause nutrition deficiency in the body. Once these people resume their normal diet, the fat cells are replenished and off course rebound occurs and make their body growing fatter.

Source: SNE Magazine