Smoking also makes you fat!

In the long term, smoking promotes taking belly. Of course, smokers increase their energy expenditure by consuming cigarette after cigarette, nicotine but also has an effect on the hormonal balance which affects the distribution of fat. Thus smokers and smokers tend to take belly instead of losing? 

The thinness of the smoker has a time 

So many people think that smoking makes you lose weight. Others do not think that the smoke and deliberately for fear of gaining weight or do not dare to stop their smoking fearing a strong weight gain after stopping. The reality is quite different and much more complex. In fact, the thinness of smoking is only transitory. In fact, smoking a cigarette increases energy metabolism based on 3% during the hour. Thus the daily energy expenditure of smokers who burn a pack a day increased from 2230 to 3445 calories.

In addition, smoking decreases appetite (anorexigenic action) and increases the feeling of satiety. But the effects of nicotine are far from being confined to only metabolic effects. Nicotine also has a direct effect on hormonal balance. But this hormonal change leads to an accumulation of fat in the abdomen. Beyond an aesthetic concern, abdominal fat deposition is associated with increased cardiovascular risk by installing a metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance via. In short, this new distribution of body fat is harmful to health. Especially as localized at the waist, the extra pounds are particularly difficult to remove?.

The fat on your stomach settle in smokers 

Overall, we can say that if young people who smoke feel winners on their weight, it will only be for a short period, because this pseudo advantage is reversed in the longer term. Indeed, in smokers' age, "whether of a man or a woman, the pounds eventually gradually concentrate around the belly, which are particularly difficult to dislodge and cause additional risks health (cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, respiratory failure?). The weight loss of the first years of smoking is an illusion that must warn young and perhaps especially girls.

To a masculinization of young smokers ... 

Indeed, this change in the distribution of body fat to the center of the body, including the belly, is a typically male distribution called Android, as opposed to the female distribution of fat mass called gynoid. In other words, smoking tends to make women lose their femininity forms! It is important to explain to them so that they understand that smoking is not a friend who can make lasting weight loss, or prevent fat later ...?

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