The Saga of Insomnia and Vegetarianism: Sleep Doesn't Cause Weight Gain, and Vegan Staples Can Still Lead to Weight Gain.

Mystery: Insomnia Can Easily Lead to Obesity

It is frequently seen in various media that research has shown that people who lack sleep are more prone to obesity.

This argument presents scientific research findings and advises those who lack sleep to make sure they get enough sleep.

In fact, regarding the relationship between sleep and obesity, less sleep should be beneficial for weight loss, and it is impossible for it to cause obesity. The reason is so simple that it does not need to be refuted.

So why do studies keep reporting that lack of sleep can lead to obesity? These studies shouldn't be unfounded; they should be supported by case studies.

So where exactly does the problem lie? In fact, simply attributing obesity to insomnia is an inappropriate cause when faced with overweight insomniacs.

The idea that insomnia causes endocrine disorders leading to obesity is also a far-fetched explanation.

Even if there is indeed a certain apparent link between insomnia and obesity, this link is caused by another behavior that insomniacs are prone to, rather than the state of "insomnia" itself.

Those so-called sleep-deprived individuals, worried that their lack of sleep will affect their daytime energy, often try to compensate for insufficient rest by increasing nutrition and eating more. They think, "I haven't slept enough, and my energy is a bit low. I should eat more or eat some nourishing foods."

This unintentionally led to long-term excessive intake.

When we overeat and hope to counteract the overeating by sleeping less, the reverse logic is to compensate for sleeping less by eating more.

Actually, the body only loses a tiny amount of nutrients from lack of sleep, while the supplements it consumes are often watermelons-no wonder it gains weight!

I wonder how many hours of sleep those friends who think they sleep less actually get each day.

In medicine, the appropriate definition of how much sleep an adult should get each day is a minimum of four hours.

Whether an individual has gotten enough sleep is generally determined by whether they experience significant fatigue and exhaustion the next day, rather than by the number of hours they get.

A misunderstanding of your own sleep needs could lead to weight gain without you even realizing it.

To put it simply, the most widely accepted explanation for the obesity that occurs after taking hormone medications is that it is caused by increased appetite due to stimulated metabolism, which leads to an inability to control one's appetite. It is not the hormones themselves, because hormones themselves have no nutritional value, but many hormones do stimulate metabolism, which can cause an excessively good appetite when taking hormones.

Users often find pleasure in the improved appetite and increased food intake, so it's not surprising that taking hormones can lead to weight gain.

To address the issue of weight gain caused by taking hormone medications, it's advisable to combine them with traditional Chinese medicine that clears heat and detoxifies. This allows the hormones to work effectively while suppressing excessive metabolism that could stimulate appetite.

Wrongful conviction: Eating vegetarian food can help you lose weight

Eating vegetarian food and losing weight are not the same thing.

For people who rarely eat vegetables and fruits, and who suffer from fatty liver, high blood lipids, obesity, and other health problems due to excessive intake of high-fat meat, eating less meat and increasing the proportion of vegetables, fruits, and soy products can help improve their physical condition.

Moreover, a balanced diet with a reasonable mix of meat and vegetables is beneficial for weight control and makes it less likely to gain weight.

However, this does not mean that eating a vegetarian diet will prevent obesity.

Some so-called vegetarians simply don't eat red meat like pork, beef, or lamb, but they do eat fish. Fish is also animal protein, but it's not as easy to accumulate fat as regular red meat.

These people are fake vegetarians.

True vegetarians fall into two categories. One category does not eat any animal meat, but still eats eggs and drinks milk. Eggs and milk are considered to be between meat and vegetables, and their nutritional value is also high.

Another type is the complete vegetarian, who doesn't eat or drink eggs or milk, and they don't eat anything that can fly, run, or swim, or any of their derivatives.

While vegetarian diets do have lower energy content per unit than meat-based diets, it's not true that eating vegetarian food will help you become slim and healthy.

Herbivores such as pigs, cows, horses, sheep, and elephants are all vegetarians, but fat pigs, fat sheep, and fat cows are everywhere.

If you feel that these animal neighbors have different metabolic characteristics from us, you cannot use them as an example.

You could go to a temple and see if you can find any truly vegetarian monks, and maybe even a few thin ones.

Even during periods of material scarcity when meat was scarce year-round, there were many plump older farmers among the hardworking people in rural society.

In rural areas, people mistakenly believe that it's just bloating, and in my hometown it's called "sweet potato fat." In fact, it's real fat, a vegetarian type of fat caused by eating too much and the sugar in sweet potatoes.

Simple meals can nourish the body.

No matter what you eat, if you consume too much, the result will be the same – you'll gain weight.

Moreover, since the nutritional content of the food is low, people often have to eat more to meet their body's needs, which stretches their stomach and intestines. The enlarged stomach and intestines will functionally lead to an increase in body size.

For obese individuals whose stomachs are stretched by thin porridge and vegetables, it might be worth considering trying to lose weight by consuming a moderate amount of meat.

Moreover, it can be said that a balanced diet with a mix of meat and vegetables is more in line with human zoological characteristics and results in better physical condition than that of a pure vegetarian.

The idea of ​​losing weight by eating vegetarian food is not advisable. As far as obesity is concerned, it is determined by how much you eat, and has little to do with what you eat.

The statement that a purely vegetarian diet can lead to weight gain refers to a natural eating pattern with balanced energy intake, and the amount of weight gain is limited.

If you eat vegetarian food and eat less, you will definitely be thin.

If you unfortunately gain weight, although both "vegetarian obesity" and "dietary-related obesity" are forms of obesity, the health risks they pose are different.

Vegetarians are prone to malnutrition and have weaker constitutions, but the risk of developing malignant diseases is much lower for "vegetarian obesity" than for "dietary obesity".

The wrongful conviction that quitting smoking leads to obesity

It is widely believed that smoking can help with weight loss, but this is generally based on intuition rather than scientific evidence.

This conclusion is likely derived from a reverse reasoning of the common belief that quitting smoking often leads to moderate obesity.

Since quitting smoking often leads to weight gain, some people believe that smoking has a weight-loss effect.

Smoking is considered a bad habit, so how can quitting smoking lead to weight gain? Wouldn't this hinder the encouragement of reformation? Natural dialectics shouldn't present such a paradox! In fact, it's another misattribution, similar to the misconception that "lack of sleep" leads to obesity.

Quitting smoking itself cannot cause weight gain. What causes obesity is not the act of quitting smoking, but rather the fact that many smokers feel lost and helpless without a cigarette in their mouth when trying to quit. To suppress the urge to relapse, they often resort to snacking as a substitute.

Cigarettes are indeed not good, but they also have no nutritional value. Replacing smoking with candy is like trying to correct a mistake, because a few sugary snacks can have more calories than a small bowl of rice.

To avoid the theoretical fallacy that quitting smoking leads to weight gain, a comforting explanation is provided: that obesity caused by quitting smoking won't just result in weight gain in the belly, but rather in a more even distribution throughout the body.

In fact, once we understand the true relationship between quitting smoking and obesity, we also realize that obesity caused by snacking is naturally systemic obesity.

Therefore, quitting smoking is unrelated to obesity. Don't add a scary "suffix" to it, lest it dampen the enthusiasm of those who are determined to quit smoking.

Since I started trying to lose weight, I have been strictly monitoring my daily food intake, but I have never quit smoking. When friends advise me to quit smoking, I always say that now the only thing I don't have to worry about is gaining weight from smoking. Anything else that I can put in my mouth is more or less detrimental to weight loss.

Smoking should be quit, but one must not develop a habit of snacking as a result.

The wrongful conviction was that the person ate less staple food and more vegetables.

During my time living in Beijing, I often heard people suggest at mealtimes, "Eat more vegetables and less staple food," believing that this is good for your health.

I have never agreed with this practice because of my childhood experience living in a rural area in the south. If I ate too much vegetables at meals, I would be criticized by my parents for "eating vegetables instead of rice."

The root cause is that in the 1960s and 70s, vegetables were scarcer than grains, so people couldn't afford to eat more.

From the perspective of dietary customs alone, the requirement to eat more vegetables and less staple food is for the sake of health. However, deciding what to eat more of and what to eat less of based on the scarcity of food seems to be a step below in terms of intention.

But actually, emphasizing eating more vegetables is a bad idea.

As times change and society develops, with the rise of foods that are more fattening than staple foods, such as meat and high-sugar foods, the necessity of consuming a certain amount of staple foods should be a structural requirement of human diet.

Throughout thousands of years of human dietary history, grains have always been the main component of our diet. Changing the "majority seat" of grains on our plates is an act that carries health risks.

From the known perspectives, eating more vegetables often leads to higher salt intake; considering that metronidazole, which inhibits anaerobic bacteria in the body, is extracted from rice bran, eating less staple food reduces the body's "natural protectors"; and considering that the medicinal (food) materials containing melanin used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat gray hair are mainly grains and fruits, people who eat less staple food are more prone to premature graying.

From the perspective of sugar metabolism, if there is less staple food, there will be less sugar supply through starch conversion, and people will easily obtain sugar from fruits and sugars.

Sugar converted from starch provides the body with a slow and continuous supply of nutrients. If sugar is ingested through fruits and sweets, the stimulation of sugar metabolism will be increased per unit of time.

Both involve sugar intake, but the former is like a gentle breeze and drizzle, posing no danger to the dam; the latter is like a violent storm, easily destroying the dam.

Diabetes occurs when the body's glucose metabolism becomes overwhelmed and malfunctions.

Moreover, the widely circulated saying of eating less staple food and more vegetables contains the word "more" but lacks a clear definition of the word "vegetables," which can easily leave room for people to interpret it arbitrarily and lead them astray.

As a multi-ethnic country, it naturally has a variety of local food cultures. Many of these long-standing customs, due to historical limitations, may suit the taste but not necessarily be good for the body.

Any dietary practices that encourage excessive consumption or high salt intake need to be re-examined, and the essential and false should be discarded.