Very thin = malnourished, very fat = over-nourished. Most people are accustomed to think so. However, the truth is harsh. According to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, fat people are more likely to be malnourished than thin people! There are four main reasons for this, and see the end for solutions.
1, fat people have higher nutritional needs
Fat weight, big head, the greater the nutritional needs to make an analogy, a large truck, compared with a family car, naturally a large truck needs more fuel, do you agree? Fat children and the same age compared to the normal weight of people, because the weight is bigger, bigger, the need for nutrition also need more, so as to maintain the normal operation of the body.
2, obesity nutrition fat and sugar metabolism
Most obese people, will be complicated “metabolic syndrome”, tend to eat in the sugar, more into fat, hoarding up; eat in the fat, but also more difficult to be broken down. And if you want your metabolism to be less abnormal, you need to have a higher nutritional requirement for your diet.
Excess energy ≠ excess nutrition
Obese people often have a less than reasonable diet structure, eating a lot of energy, but the nutrients are not up to standard. Therefore, obesity is excess energy, not excess nutrition. Eating too much deeply processed white rice, white noodles, large oil cakes, fried, baked, fried, fried and other greasy dishes, all kinds of processed snacks, high energy and less nutrition. And the more high oil, high sugar and high energy food, the less satiety, but also the easier to eat more, will further energy excess.
Malnutrition and obesity vicious circle
Adequate nutrition, is the basis of the body’s normal metabolism. If malnutrition, like raw materials are not enough, metabolism will be affected, so it is more likely to gain weight. For example.
Calcium deficiency, aggravate obesity
If lack of calcium, the body’s ability to produce heat decreases, energy consumption decreases, while fat synthesis enzyme activity increases. That way, less fat is consumed, but more is synthesized. Therefore, the lack of calcium will make obese people more and more fat.
Deficiency of B vitamins makes it hard to lose weight
Vitamin B1 can help break down glucose. If the body does not have enough vitamin B1, sugar is not broken down, and it is easily converted into fat. The more pantothenic acid you have to burn fat, the better; and to be further broken down into carbon dioxide and water, you need enough vitamin B2 and niacin. These B vitamins are essential if sugar and fat are not to be turned into fat. For obese people, the need for B vitamins is even greater.
Unscientific weight loss, aggravate malnutrition
1, very low-calorie food aggravates malnutrition
Weight loss does need to control the total energy intake. But some people have three meals a day is not normal, sometimes eat a packet of instant noodles, or eat a piece of cake, carry the hunger; and sometimes guilty of overeating.
We found that many normal people, even if they eat three normal meals a day and ensure sufficient energy, some nutrients, such as vitamin D, iron, vitamin B1, dietary fiber, etc., are still not enough. And if it is a very low-calorie diet, but also always eat some nutrient-free, how can not aggravate malnutrition?
2, extreme diet to lose weight
Some people take some extreme diet for a long time, such as eating only apples to lose weight, drinking juice to lose weight, drinking cola to lose weight. This will easily lead to a serious lack of protein intake, and the high sugar content in colas, juices and fruits, but the vitamins and minerals are poor. This will only reduce the more fat.
3, exercise increased, nutrition did not keep up
The point that is often overlooked is that the more exercise, the more nutrients the body will need. This is why we advocate a moderate increase in vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements for the weight loss crowd.
And in order to lose weight quickly, some people not only diet and reduce nutrition, but also desperately exercise to increase consumption. This type of weight loss, indeed, can quickly lose weight, but often easy to rebound, or even fatter than before.
Many women lose weight like crazy by dieting and exercising more, which can easily lead to menstrual disorders, and in serious cases can lead to amenorrhea. This is an extreme lack of nutrition and the body lights up the warning light!
4, the blind pursuit of thin beauty
Today’s society, many normal weight, proportionate people are always blindly pursuing thin beauty, blindly follow the trend of random weight loss, a normal person to reduce into malnutrition. In short, thin ≠ malnutrition, obesity will also cause malnutrition, blind weight loss is very easy to cause malnutrition.