Research scientists from the USA ended with the verdict that women with the figure “pear” are more healthy and protected from the influence of hazardous factors than their peers, with the figure “Apple”. This opinion is based on the results of the experiment conducted within the walls of the University of California riverside.
Details of this study published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. The authors experimented with rodents receiving food with high concentrations of fat. Researchers monitored how changes in the body of the test animals was due to the constant access to fatty foods, paying attention to what the method was carried out fat deposition from fattening animals.
Experts have established that on the background fat diet male mice had reduced levels of testosterone, while in females these hormonal changes occurred. Scientists believe that in the case of females they are faced with “protection based on ovarian estrogen”.
The correlation between the results of the experiment on mice with human health? According to researchers, these data indicate that women are more likely to be protected from the negative consequences of obesity than men, as women, the fat often accumulates not in the waist and stomach, and below, on the buttocks and thighs.
“Obese women have problems conceiving, but in General they are more protected if the fat does not accumulate in the waist area. While fat accumulation on the waist developing metabolic syndrome, resistance to insulin and type II diabetes. Men with this type of obesity are low libido, lack of energy and a reduction in muscle strength,” – said the authors.
Earlier Magicforum wrote about how that extra weight affects the intellectual abilities of people.