Restaurant Girl with Acne and Rural Wife on the Playground: Signs of Overnutrition and Weight Gain After Moving to the City

The girl with acne in the restaurant

On a summer day, I passed by a restaurant and saw a girl eating with great relish at a table right next to the floor-to-ceiling windows. She was so engrossed in her meal that it made people outside the window drool! I couldn't help but glance at her figure.

She wasn't exactly overweight, but she had quite a few pimples on her face, so I couldn't help but silently scold myself: "Stop eating like that!"

Acne is a source of distress for many young men and women, and it's especially annoying as it tends to appear on the face.

Popular analyses of acne pathology and treatments are mostly correct, but they are primarily symptomatic treatments and do not emphasize how to eradicate acne.

From the perspective of balanced nutrition, acne is actually a hallmark of excessive nutrient intake.

People with acne on their face are rarely thin.

Young men and women have a relatively tighter body. Some people have excessive nutrition intake (mostly due to structural dietary problems), and instead of gaining weight horizontally, they develop acne on their faces.

In other words, having acne on your face is actually like planting acne, similar to some cancer patients, and can be described as someone who is "nurturing acne and nurturing tumors".

People with acne and tumors need to eat more or consume more nutrients than people of the same body size because they have acne and tumors that need to be fed.

Can we stop feeding the pimples? Of course, just eat less of them, especially reducing high-energy and high-fat foods.

Without proper care, it would be a miracle if your acne didn't clear up. Give it a try; it might not work immediately, but just keep at it for a while.

Some might disagree, saying, "Acne can be hereditary; if her mother has acne on a certain part of her face, her daughter will also have acne on that part of her face."

Yes, it makes sense that people with similar constitutions, shared eating habits, and diets would have acne in the same areas.

It is important to note that forcibly suppressing acne without changing one's diet and overall intake can lead to weight gain or, in more serious cases, internal organ problems.

Excessive intake of nutrients will always manifest itself in some way. Some acne treatments promote bowel movements, hoping to eliminate excess nutrients through diarrhea. This can indeed be effective, but it solves the problem by temporarily disrupting metabolism and does not address the root cause of the disease.

In acne treatment, it is important to emphasize eating less spicy, oily, and irritating foods. However, it is also important to emphasize that people with acne should take this as a guideline for their future lifestyle.

As for the common advice to those with acne to eat more fruits and vegetables, this medical advice is too general and potentially harmful.

If you don't usually eat vegetables and fruits or eat too few, you should pay attention to eating some fruits and vegetables, but you should never emphasize eating "more," especially those high-sugar fruits, because the toxic side effects of excessive fructose intake are no less than those of eating too much meat.

I've never seen monks or nuns with acne, but it's also rare for them to be thin.

The conclusion is that reducing the intake of high-fat and high-protein foods can clear up acne, but this should not lead to an excessive vegetarian diet, because getting overweight after getting rid of acne is just as bad.

It's not just obese people who need to change their diet and lifestyle.

Having acne on your face is also a clear signal from your body to change your diet and lifestyle.

Rural wives on the playground

There is a college next to where I live, which has a swimming pool and a small synthetic track. Sometimes I go for a few laps on the track in the evening.

One day, when I walked onto the track, I saw two simply dressed, plump rural women jogging, laughing and joking as they ran-a very amusing scene.

Two rural women were running on a college track in a big city. Their bouncy running style had a strong rural flavor, so they were probably migrant workers working in the college cafeteria.

I was very curious, so I quickened my pace to catch up and hear what they were talking about.

Judging from the accent of someone from the Northwest region, they were basically lamenting their obesity, saying that they had gained a lot of weight in a short time after moving to the city, and that they needed to lose weight.

The obesity epidemic is not only affecting urban residents, but also migrant workers who have come to the city for work.

For agricultural laborers, gaining weight has never been a concern since ancient times.

If a woman is strong and robust, it indicates that her family is well-off and her life is comfortable. Her plump figure is a guarantee of her physical fitness to work. Why would she need to burn off that "precious" fat through pointless running? For rural girls, running in physical education classes in primary and secondary school was just a fashionable way to test their physical fitness and speed. It's hard to imagine that they would actually have to use it to burn fat. It's inevitable that they would feel self-deprecating.

Over the past decade or so, a large number of rural laborers have migrated to cities for work. Those who do heavy physical labor and earn meager wages are unlikely to be infected with urban obesity. However, those who work in the logistics departments of government agencies and eat in the canteens of these agencies are much more likely to be affected.

The lunches are either symbolically paid or free, with both meat and vegetables, and people can take as much as they want. They rarely have any sense of caution, and no one reminds them not to overeat.

The female cleaners in my workplace are all as fat as balls.

The two rural women on the playground, who knew to lose weight after gaining it and immediately took action, are truly commendable.

Those migrant workers who work in urban government agencies should also be given attention and reminders.

The old man in the park

Living in a bustling city center, having a green space nearby for activities is quite fortunate for those living in a metropolis.

When I stroll to the nearby Yuan Dynasty City Ruins Park in Beijing on weekends, I almost always encounter a man in his sixties doing something crazy there.

The old gentleman was about 1.6 meters tall, with a BMI of around 26.

The exercises they use are all conventional movements, such as running and leg stretching, and they always work up a good sweat and enjoy themselves immensely.

I've run into this guy for two or three years now; he's a man with admirable willpower.

I usually just take a walk in the park, while he really puts in a lot of effort to exercise.

Interestingly, this guy's already impressive amount of fat remained unchanged, just like his endurance and persistence in exercising.

This kind of training will naturally make you physically strong, but you won't lose weight because you definitely haven't made corresponding adjustments to your diet.

Of course, he may just want to keep exercising and has no complaints about his physique.