Get more sun in winter to effectively control appetite

Scientific research has found that basking in the sun in winter can not only warm up the whole body, which has excellent health benefits, but also help us control our appetite. The temperature is low in winter, and people often feel sleepy, tired, depressed, and their physical activity decreases. If you stay at home every day and don’t go out to bask in the sun, it will stimulate your desire for desserts, hot drinks, carbohydrates, etc. In addition, holidays such as Christmas, New Year's Day, and the Spring Festival will make everyone eat and drink too much without paying attention. From this point of view, winter is indeed a season when it is easier to gain weight.

Sunbathing in winter can not only warm up the whole body, which has excellent health benefits, but also help us control our appetite.

However, a study found that getting more sun exposure in winter can not only protect our body's yang energy and be beneficial to health, but more surprisingly, it can also help with weight loss!

In fact, there is a complex amine chemical in the human body that can stimulate the secretion of the feeling of "satiety" - serotonin. The warm sunshine in winter can prevent the precipitation of this complex amine, resist the impulse and greed for food, and achieve the effect of controlling appetite. Even exposure to artificial light in the morning can control your appetite. Of course, if you sit on the sofa watching TV all day, the secretion of this complex amine will decrease, which will not only increase your appetite, but also make you depressed, thus entering a vicious cycle.

What time of day is best for sun exposure to promote weight loss?

There are three periods of time that are best for sunbathing. The first stage is from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning. During this period, the infrared rays of the sun prevail and the ultraviolet rays are low, making people feel warm, comfortable and soft. It can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, promote metabolism and help lose weight.

The second stage is from 9:00 to 10:00 in the morning, and the third stage is from 4:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon. During these two periods, the A beam in the ultraviolet light prevails, which can promote blood circulation in the body, accelerate weight loss, and promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus in the intestines, which is beneficial to promote normal bone calcification and enhance physical fitness.

However, experts point out that you should not stay in the sun for a long time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., especially between 12 noon and 4 p.m. Because the ultraviolet rays in the sunlight at this time are dominated by B beams and C beams, not only will they not work for weight loss, but they will also cause damage to the skin.

What to do if there is no sunlight in the office?

If the office building where you work faces away from the sun, or your position is not near a window, there is not enough sunlight. Then you can choose to go downstairs to bask in the sun after lunch or take a walk with your colleagues.

However, it is recommended that although it is winter, you still have to remember to apply sunscreen, and the time should not be too long. Because the drop in temperature will lead to a corresponding decrease in the ozone concentration in the atmosphere, without a safety barrier, the seemingly not strong ultraviolet rays will have a great harmful effect. Experts also say that red radiation waves have a strong absorption effect on harmful ultraviolet rays, so wearing red clothes and basking in the sun will be more beneficial to healthy weight loss!

Eating on a red plate can also reduce appetite

Scientists prepared three colors of plates - white, blue and red, placed people's favorite snacks on these three plates, and invited hundreds of participants to repeat the experiment.

The results showed that the participants who used the red plates actually ate less than the others. In this regard, scientists explain that the color red is very strong and can attract people's attention. It can also give people a subconscious feeling of "stopping", thus affecting the appetite of participants while they are eating snacks.

Fat does not satisfy appetite, it stimulates it

"When I'm hungry, I'll choose fat because it makes me full easily, and then I won't go for snacks..." Women believe that fat, which has a strong sense of satiety, is the food that can best control appetite. But is this really the case? A recent study from Cincinnati University shows that fat is actually the culprit that activates ghrelin!

Ghrelin is a factor that regulates appetite and exists in the stomach. When people are on an empty stomach, the level of ghrelin is actually not very high. However, when you try to control your appetite by using some high-fat, high-calorie foods, the active ghrelin is activated by you! As its content increases, you will want to eat more and more, and you may not even know how much you have actually eaten.

Wonderful catalytic antibodies

A report was published in Science Daily that a group of American scientists have discovered a wonderful catalytic antibody that can act on growth hormone, a gastric hormone related to fat storage, thereby helping us control our appetite and providing a new way to treat obesity.

Related studies have shown that people's growth hormone levels are high before meals and decrease after meals. It is this growth hormone in the human body that controls our weight. It stimulates appetite when we feel hungry, promotes fat storage and increases weight.

This is undoubtedly an important discovery. The drugs developed based on human growth hormone are not only safer and more reliable, but also highly targeted and can effectively help us lose weight. Of course, this only applies to controlling appetite. If you want to completely say goodbye to obesity, you not only need the cooperation of other drugs, but also need to pay attention to daily diet and exercise.

Source: 39 Health Network www.39.net

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