Lose Weight By Lowering the Thermostat
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August 7, 2009
By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
I'll admit it. I'm lazy. Sure, I know the best and most effective way to lose
weight long-term is to both diet and exercise. And, I've done that. I've
strapped on those exercise bras and sweat pants and worked for weight
loss and better health and , don't get me wrong, I am eternally grateful
for the improved health I've found through living right. But my secret
passion? Truth be told, I've been on a 30-year quest to find the laziest
way to lose weight. And, at last, I think I've found it.
Lower the thermostat. That's right. Lowering the thermostat can help you
shed pounds, according to a several recent studies.
Brown Fat Burns Calories
A team of researchers from Maastricht University Medical Center in the
Netherlands has discovered that cold temperatures stimulate our bodies
to lose weight. The secret mechanism the body uses is a substance
called "brown fat".
Brown fat, also called brown adipose tissue, is found mostly in babies.
Human babies lack the ability to shiver to generate heat when they're
cold. Instead, they use brown fat. White fat, the type of fat most of us
adults have, does not generate nearly as much heat when we're cold.
For years, researchers believed that since babies have so much brown fat
and we adults have so little of it, that brown fat simply became dormant
after we grew up. They thought we lost our ability to activate our brown
fat.
But new studies have found that this belief is wrong. While we have less
brown fat than we did as babies, and some small percentage of us lose it
altogether, most of us can reactivate our brown fat. If we are exposed to
certain ranges of cold temperatures, our bodies can re-activate the brown
fat and burn calories.
The key is the cold temperature. Being in cold weather or sleeping in a
colder room burns fat.
Burn Calories While You Sleep
How low do you have to go to activate your brown fat? Just how cold do
we have to be? The magic number is 60 degrees. The Dutch study tested
24 healthy men at 16 degrees Celsius ( 60.8 Fahrenheit) and found that
at that temperature , 96% of them, 23 out of 24, had reactivated brown
fat levels.
During the night, try lowering your thermostat in the room you sleep in to
60 degrees for maximum weight loss. You literally will burn calories
while you sleep.
Lowering your thermostat at night will not only save you money by
reducing your fuel bills this winter and save the planet. It can also help to
save your waist line.
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