Since we cant go out and I’m just a bit cold in here and I’m eating chocolate I was wondering
Can being cold help loosing weight, by burning more calories to keep your body warm? And maybe also quivering cause of the relative cold?
(I obviously dont mean literally 0°C freezing, just colder than “standard” room temperature)
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Being cold does burns more calories because your body is expending more energy to keep you warm, but it’s not an effective weight loss solution because you have to be cold enough to shiver, not just slightly cold, and being that cold for extended periods of time has other negative health consequences.
There is a professor in California who developed a waistcoat which holds multiple freezer bottles against your body. He claims that it is not uncomfortable and is effective in weight loss.
Yes, being in a cold environment does burn additional calories. This is the best figure how much I can find:
“To answer that question, Fear pointed to a study done by Dutch researchers back in 2002. They found that lowering a room’s temperature from 71.6ºF to 60.8ºF increased the participants’ 24-hour energy expenditure — the number of calories they burned in a day — by 4 to 6%. (Scientists who did similar studies in 2010 and 2013 got very similar results.)”
https://www.insider.com/does-being-cold-burn-calories-2017-8
Simply put, yes, it will work. But we’re talking about 100 kcal or so for the average adult.
Yes, this works if you’re cold enough that you’re shivering. That’s how the body burns extra calories to keep warm. If you’re not that cold, all you’re doing is sweating less than usual, and that doesn’t burn any extra calories.
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