Drinking cold drinks + turning on the air conditioner = reducing the weight of the enemy! Young woman gained 4 kg

Will drinking sugary cold drinks and turning on the air conditioner make you fat? The weather is extremely hot, reaching over 39 degrees Celsius. If you drink a lot of cold drinks to cool off, be careful of sudden weight gain! A 28-year-old female salesperson was riding a motorcycle to solicit business under the scorching sun during the day. The heat was unbearable, so she had to drink cold drinks desperately. When she returned to the office, she immediately adjusted the air-conditioning temperature to 22 degrees, and her body metabolism immediately dropped. Because of this, her weight increased by 4.5 kg in just one week, and her menstruation was delayed, which made her exclaim: Unbelievable!

Ice drinks and air conditioning are two killers of weight loss

Dr. Liu Boen, chairman of the Mackay Memorial Social Welfare Foundation and a weight loss specialist, said that the female salesperson originally weighed 58 kilograms and had no history of other chronic diseases. She panicked and reported to the weight loss clinic because she found that her weight suddenly increased by 4.5 kilograms in just one week.

After questioning, it was discovered that the patient had been drinking more than 2000 to 3000cc of sugary ice drinks every day for the past week. At the same time, when staying indoors, the air conditioner is lowered to 22 degrees. Under the double attack of cold drinks and low temperature, which are NG behaviors for weight loss, your appetite will be stimulated. You will eat more and more, and your weight will naturally soar, and you may even experience edema and delayed menstruation.

Sugary cold drinks contain a surprising amount of calories. Drinking too much will make your stomach bloated.

Although studies have shown that after drinking ice water, some of the body's heat will be absorbed by the cold water in a short period of time, because the body must increase heat production to cope with the loss of temperature, there will be a short-term increase in metabolism. However, once the water temperature rises to body temperature, this increased metabolism disappears.

Drinking more than 2000 to 3000cc of sugary cold drinks every day will expand the volume of the stomach and cause hunger.

What is worrying is that drinking more than 1000 to 2000cc of sugary cold drinks in one breath quickly. Most of the beverages on the market contain too much sugar and artificial flavoring. Drinking too much will neither quench your thirst nor be healthy. A 500cc cup of pearl milk tea can contain more than 300 calories; a small can of 350cc cola contains 150 calories; if consumed for a long time, the calories consumed are very high.

In addition, drinking more than 2000 to 3000cc of sugary cold drinks every day will expand the volume of the stomach and cause hunger. The normal stomach capacity of an average person is about 600cc, but drinking more than 20,000cc of cold drinks every day will almost expand the stomach in a short period of time. No wonder the appetite is so great.

The temperature of the air conditioner should not be too low to affect metabolism

As for if the temperature of the air conditioner is too low, it can easily produce an "artificial hibernation effect", which can cause the body temperature to drop rapidly, gastrointestinal motility to slow down, and affect metabolism. The average body temperature of a normal person is around 34 to 36 degrees. Studies have shown that for every 1 degree drop in temperature, metabolism will decrease by 5%. Therefore, if the indoor air-conditioning temperature is lowered to 24 degrees, which is equivalent to a 10-degree difference from body temperature, the metabolism will drop by 50%.

【Doctor's Tips】:

I love drinking cold drinks and using air conditioning in the summer, which causes me to gain weight quickly. What should I do? Dr. Liu Bowen said that first of all, you must quit the habit of drinking cold drinks. It is best to drink sugar-free drinks instead. In addition, you should eat more white foods such as konjac, guava, tofu, etc. to increase fiber intake and promote gastrointestinal motility. As well as maintaining regular exercise, you will not fall into the nightmare of weight loss in the summer.