Generic fat often occurs at puberty with more fat being deposited as a result of an alteration in the hormones surging through the body. Too much chest fat occurs in pubescent boys, often resulting in the symptoms of gynecomastia. Invariably this will settle down. Men, prone to gaining weight, often notice a recurrence of this condition. Chest fat can also be deposited as a result of eating foods rich in phyto-oestrogens.
As a result of differences in gender, generically deposited fat can occur spontaneously during puberty, as a result of hormone activity: oestrogen in women and testosterone in men. Breasts, hips, buttocks and thighs tend to be the places where most fat occurs in women while buttocks, and the abdomen seem to be the places where fat accumulates in men as a result of hormone activity. Another place which is particularly prone is chest, where layers of chest fat during puberty tend to cause considerable angst to pubescent boys.
Chest fat can develop from consuming any of a range of more than 300 plants known to be rich in oestrogen. Courmestans, saponins, lignans and isoflavins are the different categories of phyto-oestrogens, with legumes, a range of soy products, and legumes all containing quantities of isoflavins. Alcohol, especially bourbon and beer, legumes, bran and cereals are all foods in which lignans are present in detectable quantities.
Oestrogens are also present in flaxseed. The plant structure of saponins is very similar to steroidal hormones oestrogen, progesterone and the various androgens ? all of which can cause chest fat to develop. Courmestans, meanwhile, are found in clover and alfalfa. Many of these foods contain more than one class of phyto-oestrogen.
Men who drink large quantities of beer over a period of time, plus eat a diet rich in soya products and include a lot of legumes such as baked beans in their diets are more likely to develop gynecomastia or chest fat than those men whose diets largely avoid these foods. Below is a list of some of the more common foods, containing oestrogen:
Alfalfa
Chick peas
Cherries
Parsley
Liquorice
Mung beans
Whole grains
Soya
Rye
Buckwheat
Millet
Sesame Seeds and Sunflower Seeds
Legumes and Beans
Korean ginseng
Wild Yam
Fenugreek
Beth Root
Root Vegetables
Sonacea family
Grains
These food groups are not exclusively contained within just one phyto-oestrogen classification ? some foods, such as whole grains, can occur right across all the groups, giving you a ?double-whammy? of phyto-oestrogens in your diet. This factor is important as the different food groups can react with both hypothalamus and pituitary gland: as an example, saponin-containing foods appear to interrelate with the hypothalamus hormones and the hormones from the pituitary gland ? a factor that clarifies the correlation between the acid/alkaline properties in food, the presence of oestrogen in food and the development of chest fat. The hypothalamus is responsible for a number of metabolic reactions, including the control over appetite. The hypothalamus transmits chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters to convey the kinds of food you should consume, including the quantity and the intervals between when you should be eating.
Serotonin is a specific neurotransmitter that is despatched and which has an effect on your appetite, manipulating your yearnings for specific foods. Another neurotransmitter affects the storage of body fat. This is called galanin and, the greater the quantity of active galanin we have, the more readily we are able to store body fat ? including readily deposits of chest fat. Looking at the problems of acidic food in the body, sufficient hydrochloric acid needs to be active in the stomach to ensure that food is properly fragmented ready for the digestive process to occur. Retained acid waste from these acidic foods can affect the activity of the thyroid gland, causing it to become underactive. As a result of this, weight gain can ensure due to the effect this has on the overall metabolism of the body, orchestrated by the intervention of the hypothalamus and its various hormones, eventually resulting in weight gain.
This has disastrous effects if you are trying to reduce your weight as the hypothalamus can have gratuitous effects through its activities. As an example, you may feel lethargic and need to be pepped up so the hypothalamus responds by despatching one of its neuropeptides to persuade you to consume some carbohydrates. From the above list, you may notice that many of the phyto-oestrogen foods listed includes carbohydrates ? thereby scuppering your attempts to lose chest fat by consuming the exact, self-same foods that can cause chest fat to amass in the first place in people vulnerable to this problem. You may also note that these particular foods also consist of acids, the build-up of which can alter the pH of the body. Foods which fall into this category are whole grains and cereals, fruits such as cherries, beans such as the ubiquitous baked bean, other legumes such as peas ? plus many others: there is such a wide range of acidic foods which, as they accumulate, can result in an increase in the body?s pH, the upshot being that it becomes more acidic. As a direct response, the body is encouraged to accumulate greater amounts of chest fat.
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