2024-01-18 09:43:12
In an interview with EFEsaludBoticaria García, one of the most well-known and television popularizers, also a doctor in Pharmacy, reveals the keys to her latest book “Your brain is hungry” (Planeta publishing house) in which, in a fun, detailed way, with familiar language and many examples, it offers those “practical strategies” to achieve weight loss “by doing something different from what we have been told all our lives.”
It’s not willpower
“We have been told that to lose fat what you have to do is have willpower. Willpower really has nothing to do, it is a David versus Goliath in the face of many things in our body,” says the communicator.
Therefore, with this book he wants to rescue “the spirit of ‘Once Upon a Life’”the cartoon series broadcast for the first time in the 1980s, so that we understand how the human body works, “our chichas” and the role, among others, of the adipocyte – fat cells – in trying to gain health.
The adipocyte, the protagonist
The adipocyte, the author explains, is the protagonist when it comes to losing weight.
“We have to see it as the ugly duckling of our body that we bully, that is, it is a cell that no one wants, everyone wants to talk about the neuron, which is the smart cell, but not the adipocyte,” he explains. García Apothecary.
And that fat cell, since no one loves it, is sad because, in addition, we are giving it a lot of energy that it does not need, “we have it full.”
“What happens to the adipocyte? It is not only a fat warehouse, but a logistics center, it is like an Amazon headquarters that is sending messages, it is constantly sending messages, which are hormones and if we mistreat it, it will not send them well,” he adds.
These hormones are those of hunger and satiety so that we do not eat more, “but if we mistreat it, it will not send them and if it does not send them, we will not get satiated and if we do not get satiated, we eat more. And it is the whiting that bites its tail.”
The myocyte, a muscle tissue cell, also sends signals to the adipocyte. Hence, García points out, the importance of the “gut-muscle-brain” axis.
“The idea in the book is to be able to understand all this and once we understand it and the signals that come to us, let’s say if it’s not me, if it’s my brain, it’s the adipocyte that is now angry, sending signals that don’t touch,” indicates the author.
More strategies
And it offers strategies for the mind, to control “emotional hunger” but also for our “guts” or so that we do physical exercise and this “is not a penance.” Because it’s about gaining muscle and losing fat.
“We have to begin to understand how our muscle works and how it generates compounds that are like a natural pill to prevent many metabolic diseases, even that natural polypill serves to generate neurons. We could even say that to almost make us smarter,” García emphasizes.
Then there are other parts that we must not forget, which are genes and the environment when it comes to losing weight.
For this reason, he assures, there is “no infallible or universal method” to lose fat.
Escape from miracle diets and gurus
“Everything they tell us on social media, on Instagram, on Tiktok about “the method to lose fat”…Forget it, it’s not going to work. 90 percent of people who start these diets in 6 or 9 months have regained their weight with a yo-yo effect,” she says.
The popularizer maintains that there are no miracles, and that there are diets “that we should not do even if they paid us.” Examples include so-called “detox” based on cleansing shakes, bars or those based on a very low calorie intake.
“These types of diets do not have to be done even in paint, nor the monothematic diets, of artichoke, pineapple, grapefruit, or when it is the diet of something, run away,” says García, who also calls for avoiding the “ nutritional gurus” who do not follow scientific evidence because “they can do a lot of harm.”
Analyze other types of diets that, instead of having a red traffic light, have an amber one, and others that have a green one.
That eating badly does not come cheap
Thus, it explains the pillars of the diet, which in reality has to be a nutritional intervention with the foods that should be eaten more (such as fruit, vegetables and legumes) and less, as well as those that should be exchanged for others and the importance of consuming local products.
“The changes are in the environment, that is, the fact that we have teleworking, a sedentary lifestyle, that food arrives at home affects us, but it is also true that obesity especially affects the most disadvantaged families,” he emphasizes.
That is why he considers it important that there are strategies so that healthy foods “are not so expensive.”
In this sense, he believes that it is not that eating healthy is expensive but that eating poorly is “extremely cheap”: “It cannot be that it costs us much more to eat an apple than to eat a muffin,” Boticaria García asserts.
La gordophobia
It also addresses fatphobia because “There really is a very big stigma”: “If you don’t have a normative body, you don’t fit in,” reflects García, who adds that “there are people who have normative bodies and who are really obese inside.”
He considers that there is a “very thin” line with respect to fatphobia and that on the one hand it is “essential” to change the language and on the other we must not forget that obesity is a metabolic problem, which goes hand in hand with other future ones.
“If we do not respect these people and do not make them feel good, the evidence tells us that they are even more likely to not take care of themselves, that is, a person has to feel good about themselves and understand what is happening to want to take the step.” and make those nutritional interventions,” he highlights.
Likewise, García points out in the interview that the “crux of the issue” is also whether or not obesity is defined as a disease, as the World Health Organization (WHO) has done, a fact that, in his opinion, It has pros and cons, since on the one hand it can remove that guilt from the person but “it is also true that the word illness has a very bad negative charge.”
“The good news is that scientific societies are working to change the word disease for others that are friendlier,” he says.
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