Middle age is really more likely to gain weight!
As we get older, the lipids in our adipose tissue get older. Even if we maintain the same diet and exercise as when we were younger, we may gain weight more easily with each passing year. In other words, gaining weight in middle age may be a fundamental setting of the body. Even if you don't gain weight, your body is storing fat every day A fat cell is essentially a large oil droplet, packed with energy-storing lipids (triglycerides), and its size usually determines whether a person will gain weight or become thin. Many people may think that by ensuring a balance between daily caloric intake and consumption, no new lipids will be produced into the cell. Wrong! Whether you gain weight or lose weight, your body will synthesize new lipids as long as you eat. Fat cells are dynamic tissues where large amounts of lipids enter and exit every day, like a "job center:" Absorption: a large amount of new lipid enters the cell after a meal, waiting for an opportunity. Removal: lipi...