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Text/Chen Dale

There are not a few women who go to the hospital to treat menopausal disorders. Hot flashes, night sweats, palpitations and emotional disorders make menopausal women feel very uncomfortable. In addition to these symptoms, there is also a problem that puzzles many patients, that is, "getting fat", especially the swimming ring that widens year by year, which is the most headache for many women.

The reason of getting fat in menopause is the decline of ovarian function, which leads to the gradual decrease of estrogen secretion. Estrogen helps to regulate the metabolism of body fat. Once estrogen decreases, it will inevitably cause obstacles to fat metabolism and cause fat accumulation, which is also the reason why women are particularly prone to suddenly gain weight in menopause.

Five causes of menopause obesity

Too many menopausal women complain: "Even if they eat less and exercise, their waistlines are getting wider every year! Chen Siwei, an attending physician in the Department of Endocrinology, Geng Xin Hospital, said that after menopause, women's metabolism slowed down due to lack of estrogen protection; In addition, because most women have retired (or are facing retirement) after menopause, most children have become independent, and their living habits are unconsciously more lazy than when they were young.

1 estrogen decreases, which affects fat metabolism.

After menopause, ovarian function gradually degenerates, which makes the female hormones in the blood decrease and the male hormones increase relatively, and the role of estrogen is closely related to fat metabolism.

Chen Siqi explained that estrogen receptors are distributed in the hypothalamus, which can balance the intake and consumption of calories in the body. In particular, estradiol can regulate the activity of lipoprotein lipase, increase the sensitivity of lipolytic enzyme and increase the efficiency of adrenaline in decomposing fat. Therefore, once women are menopausal, without the protection of estrogen, the speed of fat metabolism will inevitably slow down, and they are more inclined to synthesize cholesterol and triglycerides, so they will naturally become more and more obese.

2 basal metabolic rate decreased

I often see many menopausal women complain that they obviously eat the same as when they were young. I used to eat a cake in my twenties and thirties, and it only took me half a day to metabolize it. But at the age of 50, you can't get rid of your metabolism after a day's exercise, and it is most likely to accumulate in your abdomen. Chen Siwei explained that this is because with age, in addition to estrogen deficiency, growth hormone also decreases, which slows down the overall basal metabolism and metabolic rate.

Growth hormone is the most important hormone to help our muscles grow, and muscle is the key to exert the basic metabolic rate of human body. Once the growth hormone gradually decreases, muscle synthesis decreases, and the basal metabolic rate will also decrease.

Chen Shiting, a nutritionist at Corning Hospital, said that "muscle mass" plays an important role in weight and body shape. It is often seen that many women can lose weight quickly in a short time by dieting and eating less in order to lose weight, but once they resume eating, their weight will suddenly increase, even heavier than before. This is because almost all the weight lost by dieting is muscle and water. Once the original food intake is restored, because the muscles become less, the basal metabolic rate drops, and the body tends to synthesize fat, of course, it is easy to get fat. Therefore, it is very important for menopausal women to maintain proper muscle mass.

3 Lifestyle becomes lazy

Most menopausal women are financially independent and their lives are gradually stable. Besides, children need not be bored. Compared with young women, their activities will drop a lot, and it is easy to develop lazy living habits and produce obesity problems.

4 Emotional instability Comfort yourself with eating.

Many menopausal women are prone to emotional instability such as depression and anxiety due to hormonal factors. Coupled with the decline of estrogen, it is easy to change their taste and make their taste heavier. It is easy to relieve stress and indulge their appetite through diet. They eat when they are in a good mood, comfort themselves when they are in a bad mood, and eventually lead to out of shape.

5 congenital inheritance

Genetic inheritance of congenital obesity is also the main cause. It is found that if parents are obese, even if women don't get fat when they are young, they are easy to get fat during menopause, especially the accumulation of subcutaneous fat and visceral fat, which is also the reason why most menopausal women are obese at the waist, buttocks and legs.

Six hidden dangers of obesity

Menopausal women aged 42-52 years old often have menopausal obesity, sleep disorder, depression, arthritis, cardiovascular diseases and other problems due to the gradual decline of the function of ovarian secretion of female hormones; Obesity is often the initiator of many chronic diseases, especially abdominal obesity.

1 cardiovascular diseases

It is frustrating that even if women do not gain weight after menopause, the distribution of body fat will change under the influence of hormones, which will often increase abdominal fat, thus increasing the chances of cardiovascular diseases, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia, and eventually leading to the occurrence of metabolic syndrome.

According to a statistic of the national medical service system, the mortality rate of female heart disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease and hypertension increases at a rate of nearly 1 times every five years after menopause, indicating that the "three highs" problem, heart disease and cerebrovascular disease pose a threat to postmenopausal women.

2 breast cancer

A study by National Taiwan Province University found that if the body mass index of postmenopausal women is high, their chances of breast cancer will increase in the future. Chen Siqi said that the study pointed out that if the normal body mass index value 18.5 to 23.9 is taken as the comparison benchmark, if the body mass index of menopausal women is less than 18.5, the risk of breast cancer will be reduced by 22% compared with the normal body mass index; However, if the body mass index after menopause is 24-26.9, 27-29.9, 30-34.9, or greater than or equal to 35, the incidence of breast cancer will increase by 19%, 3 1%, 53% and 65% respectively compared with the normal body mass index, that is to say, the fatter people are.

3 Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis has become an important public health problem for middle-aged and elderly people. Especially after menopause, due to the decrease of estrogen and physiological structure, the bone mass of women is less than that of ordinary men. Once menopause, many women will have osteoporosis without estrogen protection, and obesity will aggravate osteoporosis.

Degenerative diseases of joints

Degenerative arthritis is a common joint disease in menopausal women. Half of women over 65 in China suffer from degenerative arthritis. Chen Siqi said that in addition to joint wear caused by long-term use, most women are caused by aging, menopause and loss of hormonal protection.

In addition, menopausal women have a high probability of obesity. Once the weight is heavy, the condition of degenerative arthritis will be aggravated, especially when the body mass index is greater than 30 and the weight exceeds the load of the knee. Common symptoms such as limited activity, knee weakness when going up and down stairs, serious joint water accumulation, inability to walk, etc.

5 emotional problems

Menopause, physiological period, postpartum, etc. It is easy to make women's mood fluctuate, especially the physiological discomfort such as fever, flushing, night sweats, dizziness, dry mucosa and osteoporosis in menopause, which is easy to cause women's emotional instability, irritability and depression. Coupled with the decline of metabolism, it will cause menopause obesity and even hair loss, which will aggravate women's emotional response.

Cervical cancer

Many studies have also pointed out that the probability of cervical cancer will increase after menopause. Chen Siqi said that if you have cervical cancer, you may have abnormal bleeding in the early stage, which is difficult to distinguish from abnormal bleeding in menopause. She appealed to women over the age of 40 and suggested that you go to the obstetrics and gynecology department for cervical and endometrial examination regularly, especially for women with abnormal bleeding after menopause.

Menopausal women increased by 77 days 1 kg.

According to research, menopausal women generally gain 2 to 7 kilograms. Chen Shiting explained that the basal metabolic rate of menopausal women will be about 100 calories less than that before menopause, and 100 calories is about the heat of a glass of milk. But if you still eat as much as you did when you were young and have no exercise habits, it is equivalent to accumulating 100 calories in your body every day, and it will take 77 days to accumulate.