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Date Posted: 15:24:05 07/28/06 Fri
Hi,
I promised to explain why woman and men carry their fat differently. I must note that this explanation is in general, sure some woman carry fat differently like some men, that does not mean you are weird or abnormal all people are differemnt.
Fat serves different functions in our body (see post below) in the explanation of carrying the fat between men and woman only the function of protecting ourselves from outside blows is important.
The way we store fat is mainly dependent on several hormones which change in puberty (note that all children, regardless of gender carry fat the same way)
Woman tend to carry fat in their lower body, upper legs, hips, butt and lower back and lower stomage. Men carry fat mostly in their upper body, around the bellybutton and upper stomage and chest.
The reason here is two fold, first woman get pregnant and woman have breast tissue.
Primarily your body wants to protect and keep warm your vital organs, so your arms and legs are less important than your torso. Since woman have breast tissue (all woman even woman with breast that are not large) so their heart and lung area is already protected. More important, the unborn child needs to be protected, the fat on the lower stomage and back protects the child from bumps and blows, the fat on the hips, butt and upper legs make sure we stay stabilized during pregancy and are able to carry the baby without falling over. It is like building a tower with lego, if the basis is broader the tower stabilizes and does not fall over. For men there is no need to protect that area, their body will use all its fat to protect the organs like the heart, stomage, lungs and spleen.
One would argue why we could not just only store fat in these places while pregant, why do we get stuck with fat on our hips when we are not pregnant and thus have nothing to protects? Why does our body not just start storing there when needed? The reason for this is threefold:
1) it does store more fat in those areas when pregnant
2) our body wants to protect is reproducive organs.
3) our body is not sure that while pregnant there will be enough food available to make sure the fat is stored there so it will start in advance.
4) while pregnant the availble food must be shared with the baby so there is less left to store.
I hope this satisfies those who want to know.
If I need to explain more, let me know
Chocolate
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