Turning off the heater and spending more time in the cool, you can increase the burning of calories and lose weight, as reported by the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years Pannochka. net This is reported by researchers from the Netherlands.

Everyone knows that at low temperatures the body begins to use more energy for warming, but few have guessed to use this effect for weight loss.

Meanwhile, Dr. Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt of the Maastricht University Medical Center states that frequent exposure to moderately low temperatures activates thermogenesis and burning of so-called brown fat (brown adipose tissue) - sediments that the organism naturally uses primarily in the body.

In addition, according to the authors of the study, a slight coolness, called "temperature training", maintains the tone of the peripheral vessels and helps strengthen the cardiovascular system. This is reported in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism.

"The temperature regime affects human health, frequent exposure to moderate cold can significantly change the energy consumption of our body," say scientists.

They emphasized that houses, offices, and even hospitals are cooled and heated only for the sake of our thermal comfort - this minimizes the body's ability to control its own temperature. This state of affairs can increase the propensity to obesity and related diseases.

When the body freezes, it can increase the heat production by five times in comparison with the normal state. In this state, we are very uncomfortable, and the energy costs are very high. Animal studies have shown that a slight decrease in the temperature of the medium activates another path of thermogenesis involving the brown fatty tissue.

Scientists call temperature training part of a healthy lifestyle, arguing that a gradual drop in temperature of 2 ° C per hour in the range of 17-25 ° C (or 62-77 ° F) helps to burn calories effectively and does not cause discomfort.

The authors note that a sudden decrease in the temperature of the environment can be harmful to the elderly, because this negatively affects their blood pressure and body temperature.

But they say that temperature training during life will help people acclimatize and become less vulnerable to temperature changes.

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