Medical Investigations: It thins the cold?

Put the heat too high can become obese. The explanation is simple. When the thermometer reads 25 ° C to 30 ° C ambient temperature, our body does not need to consume energy.

But when down to 17 ° C, the body tends to produce brown adipose tissue, a good fat that burns energy and glucose and produces enough heat to maintain body heat, as unveiled a study by the Medical Center of the University of Maastricht, in the Netherlands.

Apparently, when the cold gets worse, the body launches a series of processes to counter it. This may involve spending up to 30% of the energy budget of the body. And the more fat devote to it, the less likely we suffer diabetes, overweight or obese.

In sum, to keep the line in addition to eating right and exercising, scientists recommend accustomed to spending more time at moderately low ambient temperature. So much so that the endocrinologist Paul Lee and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health in the United States have come to the conclusion that it would suffice to drop a few degrees for central heating in buildings heated during winter nights to stop him the global obesity epidemic.