As of: March 7, 2024, 2:10 p.m
By: Juliane Gutmann
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If you eat more calories than you need, you will gain weight.
This principle is questioned by researchers.
You blame something else for your body weight.
Anyone who wants to lose weight always hears the same thing: exercise a lot and eat less.
But many who try to lose weight this way don't succeed.
On the other hand, there are people who eat all day long but don't gain weight.
US researchers have now looked into this phenomenon - with astonishing results.
This part of the body requires a lot of energy - and we don't notice it
Our brain is said to be a real “energy guzzler”
.
The brain uses around a quarter of the energy we consume throughout the day.
And not just when we strain our gray cells at work or learn languages: our brain burns the most energy in the form of glucose when it produces hormones and controls metabolism and organ functions, as Focus reports.
"Saying that obesity is an energy balance problem is like saying that fever is caused by temperature imbalance," said Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School.
The assumption that obesity is caused by a chronic “too many calories” is, in his opinion, too short-sighted
.
Or the other way around: If you eat fewer calories than you burn every day, you don't necessarily have to lose weight.
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Thin or fat: Our weight is influenced by many factors, one in particular has been ignored for a long time.
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Fat despite diet - that could be behind it
It's not just the brain that influences our body weight.
Other factors also control whether we are slim or stocky
.
These include:
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the type of food
: Some foods such as white flour products or sugar promote weight gain.
Vegetables, nuts or fruit, on the other hand, keep you slim or make you slim.
The secret lies in the fiber:
Not only does it keep you full for longer, but it also burns additional calories
and thus promotes weight loss, as a study showed.
Genetic predisposition
: Many things that determine body weight are hereditary.
For example, our metabolism, the number of fat cells in the body or our feeling of satiety
.
“Reprogramming” these processes is only possible to a small extent - or even not at all.
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