Cold weather do not wear Qiuku, in order to keep warm, the legs will accumulate fat, thickening of the skin, thicker and thicker hair ... ... Recently, a 'cold day without pants will become fat' network widely disseminated yesterday Chinese medicine experts said that this statement is not reliable and there is no scientific basis.
The net article said that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, cold will damage the yang, body metabolism will decline, the body fat can not be promptly decomposed. Cold weather do not wear Qiuku, legs will start the defense mechanism, accumulation of fat, skin Thicken, become thicker and thicker, resulting in weight gain.
In this regard, Wuhan Hanyang Hospital, Professor Fang Yong, director of Chinese medicine, said the body is cold, not wearing a long-wearing pants and not .. First of all, cold tolerance and genetic genes related to different regions and different races, different ability of cold tolerance; Secondly, the ability of cold resistance can be improved through exercise. For example, the winter swimmer is more resistant to cold than the average person. Third, the ability of cold resistance can be improved through eating. For example, eating more high-protein foods such as meat will enhance cold tolerance.
'If the cold does not wear pants will become fat' statement was established, that winter, many people would not have to be frozen into fat? 'Professor Fang Yong said with a smile that obesity is the result of a combination of many factors.When the human nutrition Excess or exercise to reduce the fat will have in the abdomen, limbs hoarding, as a reserve energy for consumption under difficult circumstances. The role of fat is not only cold, but also to protect the internal organs, to provide energy.
Professor Fang Yong explained that in the cold stimulation, the body into the stress state, vasoconstriction, increased blood flow resistance.In order to give priority to the protection of heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney and other important organs, the temperature of these areas will be the first to be Maintain, and the skin, hands, feet, nerve endings, etc. will be the first to chill .In order to restore body temperature, people tend to shiver, shivering, so that the muscles and organs produce heat .In fact, no matter fat or thin, people are afraid of cold, body fat How much, the thickness is not an indicator of whether the warmth.While the body is lean, but a high proportion of people, heat more, more not afraid of the cold.
As for the cold will lead to thicker and thicker hair, Fang Yong said that the hair by the genetic and hormone levels control, and the temperature has nothing to do.And the human hair was deteriorating trend, not because of cold and increased.
Professor Fang Yong suggested that different groups of people should be based on their physique, with the environmental changes to rationalize the clothing. If you feel cold legs, after returning home from the body temperature can not be restored to normal, it means that the added clothes. Women, the elderly, arthritis patients, often sedentary or peripheral circulation is not good people, when the weather is cold to wear Qiuku, thick socks, etc., best to use hot water every day before going to bed feet 15 minutes. Of women, known as 'Hanxie Qi stagnation' in traditional Chinese medicine, people after middle-aged heat production capacity to reduce, but should pay attention to keep warm, to prevent lower limb reflux blood temperature, affecting the legs and feet and even the whole body's physiological state.
