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)
In: Biology
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.
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