What is the difference between edema face and fat face?

There is an essential difference between an edematous face and a fat face. A face caused by edema is puffy, while a fat face refers to the phenomenon of a fat face caused by excessive fat on the face. If the face becomes swollen, it often indicates the occurrence of some diseases or is caused by some bad living habits. For example, kidney disease often causes facial swelling. In addition, drinking too much water the night before may also cause facial edema.

The difference between edema face and fat face

1. Different situations occurred during the inspection

To determine whether it is an edematous face, you can usually press the fleshy parts of your face with your fingers early in the morning to see if there is an obvious depression. This depression will recover more slowly. But if it is a fat face, the skin will quickly return to its original shape after pressing, and there will be no depressions or "pits" on the skin surface.

2. Looks different in appearance

An edema face is one where the entire face looks loose, swollen, and bubbly, as if it had been hit. A fat face looks like it has few muscles on the face, a bit like baby fat, and the face looks flat overall, lacking three-dimensionality, thus forming a round face.

3. Different reasons for their formation

The formation of edema face is mostly due to poor metabolism or circulation, such as drinking a lot of water before going to bed, sitting for a long time, incorrect sleeping posture, staying up late, and being born with poor metabolism, which leads to excess water in the body being unable to be discharged, and the water is retained in the body and even seeps back into the skin, causing swelling.

The reason for the appearance of a big U-face with fat accumulation is first of all related to one's own physique. You may have a physique that is prone to fat accumulation; secondly, it is related to diet. People who often form a big U-face with fat accumulation like to eat high-calorie, high-fat foods and snacks, etc., which leads to the body's inability to consume the energy produced and stores it in the form of fat; the third is lack of facial exercise, because the burning rate of facial subcutaneous fat is very low. If the fat is not consumed as it should be, it will accumulate and become a big U-face. For example, often holding the chin with your hand or lying on the table will aggravate the formation of a fat-type big U-face.

4. It is different how easy it is to lose weight

Edema-type obesity, which we usually call puffiness, is caused by the accumulation of excess water in the body, which leads to poor detoxification. It is a kind of pseudo-obesity, and losing weight is naturally easier than real obesity. The key is to eliminate toxins and water in the body, such as eating more potassium-containing diuretic foods. It is more difficult to lose fat on a fat face than on a swollen face.

5. They lose weight in different ways

The key to edema face is drainage. Choosing dietary drainage method as a weight loss method will be very effective. If you want to lose weight on your fat face, in addition to controlling your diet, the key is to do more facial exercises and massages to promote fat burning.

6. Compared with edema and fat, the most difficult thing to reduce is masseter hypertrophy

There are three types of fat face: edema, fat and masseter hypertrophy. Among them, it is easier to lose weight on a puffy face than a fat face, but compared with these two, the most difficult face shape to lose weight is actually the one with enlarged masseter muscles. For example, if you eat too hard or chew snacks frequently, your facial muscles will become more and more developed and firm, resulting in a large face shape, which is called masseter muscle hypertrophy.