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The cold is good for health?
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Professor Wayne Hayes (Wayne Hayes) from the University of California, Irvine believes that the cold is good for health because it helps burn calories and lose weight. He invented and successfully sells special vests Cold Shoulder ice inside. In one hour of wearing this vest until the ice has melted, burned 250 calories.
The idea is based on research Hayes Kronaysa Ray (Ray Cronise), a specialist in materials science from NASA. He studied the metabolism of the body under the influence of low temperatures, пишет The Atlantic.
In 2010 Kronays presented his ideas in lectures TEDMED Talks .
Scientists believe that regular exposure to low temperature stimulates the metabolism and helps burn fat. Kronaysa ideas are often criticized by the scientific community, because freezing himself actually dangerous to health. But the author explains that the benefit is not extremely low temperatures, and in the area around 12-18 ° C.
According to Ray Kronaysa, the present epidemic of obesity in modern society is explained by the fact that people are rarely exposed to the cold, and live in comfort "hothouse" conditions. It is unnatural in the sense that our ancestors experienced regular temperature fluctuations, depending on the time of year. Over millions of years of evolution, people largely determined by two factors: lack of food and cold. Now these factors have suddenly disappeared.
It must be admitted that in recent years this theory is increasingly regarded in the scientific press. For example, last year in the journal Cell Metabolism published article researchers National Institutes of Health about the reaction of the endocrine system in the cold. One of the authors of the work later published a study on the beneficial metabolic changes in the human body with a decrease in ambient temperature from 24 ° C to 19 ° C.
Similar conclusions came Wouter van Marken Lihtenbelt (Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt), professor of the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), which also examines the phenomenon of increased metabolism when exposed to cold.
Another interesting Life hacking Ray Kronays uses in everyday life, he trained himself to sleep without a blanket. According to the scientist, blankets invented in those days, when we had to sleep in unheated rooms. Now we heated the house, but continue to use blankets. Kronays'm sure it's just a bad habit.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/243739/
