Having the central
heating on may be contributing to our ballooning waistlines, Dutch researchers
suggest.
They say higher
temperatures in homes, offices and hospitals provide more comfort, but mean
bodies no longer need to burn extra calories to keep warm.
A Maastricht University
Medical Centre group says 19C (66F) is sufficient to provide the right balance.
Stories
like this always bring a smile to my face, so-called ‘researchers’ are always
coming out with bizarre crap like this.
When I
read the research was done in the Netherlands I wasn’t surprised, although I
was surprised to read in was done at a University because it sounds like it was
done in the backroom of a coffee shop in Amsterdam.
The
suggestion here seems to be to turn your thermostat down and put up with cold,
which I’m sure will work for a while until you end up having to compensate by
eating more just to keep warm.
It never
ceases to amaze me that ‘research’ of this nature continues to be funded.
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