Post Date December, 03 2023
They don't eat much, and beer is not a regular on the table, but many middle-aged men are still helpless to become "beer belly men". Why? You might as well reflect on your sleep status first.
"Many men with poor sleep quality have beer bellies, and men with beer bellies tend to have poor sleep conditions." Some experts said that the United States, the world's largest "fat country", found the two-way correlation between this beer belly (that is, centripetal obesity) and sleep problems during the statistical analysis of obese people, although the causal relationship between the two is still unclear.
The reasons for the formation of beer belly are very complex. In addition to genetic, diet, exercise and other factors, many people do not understand that poor sleep quality is also a major culprit.
According to experts, people's sleep status has gradually declined from youth to middle age to old age, and the quality of slow-wave sleep (also known as deep sleep) has become worse, and deep sleep is particularly important for people's overall health, which plays an important role in helping the body eliminate fatigue, immune disease resistance and other aspects.
In addition, middle-aged men often play the role of "pillar" in the family and society, and their sleep conditions are worse under "too much pressure". Under the influence of comprehensive physiological, psychological and social factors, the neuroendocrine status of the body changes, and the secretion of adrenocortical hormone and gonadal hormone increases, which will make fat easily accumulate in the abdomen and cause centripetal obesity, that is, beer belly. Cardiotropic obesity is closely related to the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension.
Experts suggest that middle-aged men of office workers should start with the word "moving" if they want to improve their sleep quality and stay away from beer belly.
Sleep is originally a physiological instinct phenomenon. As long as we keep the combination of movement and quiet, regular and orderly life, sleep will come naturally.
For middle-aged men who are often engaged in mental work, keeping walking exercise for half an hour in the morning and afternoon respectively, and taking a 15-minute rest at noon (without sleeping, you can have a quiet rest with your eyes closed) to relax the brain, which is very helpful for maintaining the dynamic and static balance of the body, and can also promote sleep.
(Intern editor: Cai Junyi)
