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Why Women Lose Weight Slower tha Men and What To Do About It

Topic: Dieting and Weight LossBy Richard Lipman M.D.Published Recently added

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When it comes to weight-loss, men normally have significantly less difficulty dropping weight than females. Understanding why this comes about can make weight loss for women and men less difficult. There are a number of good reasons to explain this difference in rate and ease of weight loss among men and women, even of the same age and body weight.

Women of All Ages Less Able to Control Food Cravings tha
Adult Males.

Faced with their favorite foods, women of all ages are less able than adult men to suppress their hunger, a finding that may help clarify the higher obesity for females.Experts attempting to comprehend the brain's elements for controlling food intake carried out brain scans on hungry adult men and ladies. The brain scans revealed sizable variances in activation of hunger centers in women as compared with adult males. "There is something going on in the female," Dr Wang, the chief scientist said in a telephone interview, "the signal is so much diverse." Some research workers have felt the distinction could be in how male and female hormones act on hunger centers of the brain.

Estrogen, is recognized to have an effect on urge for food, eating and where the excess food eventually ends up on the body. Women have proportionately more body fat than men do possibly preparing them for pregnancy.

Men Have Quicker Metabolic processes

Men have higher amounts of muscle mass than women. Its the amount of muscle that is closely determines the rate of basal fat burning capacity.This leads them to use-up more calories even at rest so the final end result is a more rapid fat loss. On the average adult males beat the women in metabolism by more than 10% given the very same height and weight. The problem is than many men weigh more than the average women, so that already sets the numbers higher.

Males Are More Activer
In a latest research it was found that males, on the average, burn up 20% more calories than females. Part of this may be occupation related, while other parts are connected to sex distinctions.

Ladies Are Exposed to More Food:
This may be one of the secrets to explain the significant difference in response to diets between males and females. Women usually go shopping for the meals, prepare the meals and put the leftovers away.That ends up giving the women much more possibilities of making errors.

All of these issues add up to increased issues with weight control in women than men. All of this does not mean than ladies cannot lose body weight, it indicates they have to work a little harder and longer than men and steer clear of comparing their weight loss to the weight loss of the opposite sex. In addition, women who experience difficult weight loss do have control over their physical activity and their exposure to high calorie foods and beverages.

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Richard Lipman M.D, board certified endocrinologist, internist & weight loss expert has treated tens of thousands of adults, children and families with weight & metabolic disorders. He is the author 6 new diet books including
New Pounds & Inches at www.bestbuyhcg.com

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