Change Your "Fat Thermostat" to a Healthy Level
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Change Your "Fat Thermostat" to a Healthy Level
Have you ever watched someone who looks healthy and slender eating a slice of chocolate cake and wondered how they stay thin? Part of the story is that a set-point in the brain keeps their body fat and weight level from varying much… that is, unless they do something that causes their brain to change the set-point.
That’s what happened when автоколонки Eagle I quit smoking. I had been thin all my life. Then I stopped smoking and gained about 25 pounds! By quitting I had inadvertently triggered a process that changed the body-weight regulator in my brain.
My body started making fat out of everything I ate, whereas it formerly eliminated excess calories. Stopping smoking is only one of many major changes that can cause your brain’s body-weight controls to be altered.
Let’s call весы кухонные Tefal the weight regulator in your brain a *set- point,* and a good image for the set-point is the temperature you set on the thermostat for the heating and cooling system of your house. If it is set at 71 degrees, then the temperature doesn’t vary by more than a degree or two before the thermostat tells the furnace to heat up (or the air conditioner to cool down).
Your brain’s set-point functions much the same way. It maintains a steady body-weight and body-fat level through a complex interaction of hormones and metabolic processes.
The chemistry of how this works is beyond the
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