Control weight: why is this so difficult?/Appetite and will

Control weight: why is this so difficult?/Appetite and will

Even if it is proven that various factors influence our dietary habits, the principle which controls the normal instinct of nutrition is badly known.

Does our environment support the excess weight?
Partially. Can one blame technology? Possibly. The telephone, the remote control; to go up out of elevator or by the mobile staircase rather than by the staircase, to take the car rather than to go, all these means reduce the energy expenses.

Even if the choice of our food and our manner of eating depends on a variety of factors like the sight, the taste and the sense of smell, we are also influenced by genetic, psychological and social conditions. The scientists discovered that the appetite and the metabolism are controlled by a composite system of hormones and neurons, in complex interaction with the organization and the brain.

The leptine informs your brain which you are satisfied
Recently, the recent discovery of the leptine, a hormone which contributes to the regulation of the energy balance in the organization, made it possible to better include/understand the phenomenon. The leptine constitutes a kind of thermostat which ensures the long-term stability of the body mass. When you ate sufficiently, the leptine sends a message to your brain indicating to him that you are satisfied, thus decreasing your appetite. How then to explain that you are still hungry if you have just eaten? The specialists believe that this feeling is due to a failure of the communication system. In this case, the brain is unaware of the signals which it receives from the leptine and other hormones which control the appetite.

A “weight of instruction”
It is also believed that the leptine plays a part in the regulation of a “weight of instruction” which is then automatically fixed by your brain and your organization. During the evolution, your organization learned how to vigorously defend this “weight of instruction”. This is why, even while eating less, you can burn less calories and cease losing weight. It is however possible to change the instruction to continue to lose weight. It is a question of increasing your heart rate as a practitioner of the moderated exercises, such rythmée walk, half an hour per day.