Feeling Cold Can Fight Your Weight

The cold can be your friend if you play your cards well.

If you live in a freezing environment, you gain brown fat, or the metabolically active fat that burns calories to generate heat within the body. Hence, people who bring down the cold in their bedrooms from 75 degrees to 66 degrees would increase the brown fat in their bodies.

On the other hand, those who live in warm parts of the world tend to look more obese than those in the cold parts, after taking the factors of diet and lifestyle into consideration, according to theatlantic.com. 

Even in warmer climates, humans can fight with cold nights and winters. It would automatically boost metabolic systems. Some scientists have pursued research to check if that would be a better natural state for maintaining health and bringing down obesity, according to science.slashshot.org.

Scientists are probing a new theory regarding environmental thermodynamics. They feel that it can help to promote weight loss too. The basic idea is that because your body uses energy to maintain a normal body temperature, a cold atmosphere burns calories. Wayne B. Hayes, associate professor at the University of California at Irvine, says that wearing a cold vest for an hour can burn almost 250 calories, even though the data he collected was not complete. A little more than a year ago, he began selling the vest, which he calls the "Cold Shoulder", from his apartment in Pasadena.

Now don't give it the cold shoulder immediately. His idea was born from the experience of another thinker--- Ray Cronise, who is a former materials scientist at NASA, and is assiduously probing the advantages of the cold

Ray Cronise's idea was strengthened when he subjected himself to a number cold showers and shirtless walks in the cold, which made him lose 26.7 pounds in six weeks. The body's metabolism shot up and burnt a lot of calories due to the cold. Instead of storing energy as fat, his body would use the fat in order to maintain its basic, required temperature.

His exploration has encouraged him to open a high-tech lab in Huntsville, Alabama, undertaking a number of small, scientific studies. This experiment got all the eyes on him in the 2010 best seller, titled "The 4-hour body".

Keeping the body constantly warm is a modern practice, which may be leading to the obesity that we observe everywhere today. By exposing one's body to the cold, and lowering the temperature in the house could make the body convert its white fat into brown, and burn it, in order to experience the dip in the body's weight.

Now you know why your forefathers had those slim bodies. Even if they didn't eat less, nor exercised more, they hadn't invented the snug heating techniques that could help them fight the cold.