Did you know that sitting in an air conditioning room makes us fat? Without air conditioning, we have to expend energy and burn calories to regulate body temperature; with air conditioner, it’s done for us.
Modern technologies such as air conditioning and heating help keep us in “the thermoneutral zone,” a temperature range where we do not have to regulate our body temperature, a report suggests.
When our bodies are above or below this zone, we increase the amount of energy we spend, which “decreases energy stores,” such as fat, the study’s authors say.
The above article was extracted from Reader’s Digest and ABC News Medical Unit.
I think there have to be certain provisos….so ppl who can’t afford air-con are skinny? And how abt heatstroke or heat exhaustion? A few years ago, several elderly folks died in the heatwave in Chicago as their apartments weren’t airconditioned or did they have proper fans. Bet they didn’t get skinny when they died in a most horrible way. I can’t imagine life without airconditioning in the stifling heat of Msia. I do have to admit I love to exercise in the gym when there is air-con! Of course there is “hot yoga” which makes u sweat to the extent of slipping off the mat..not doing that again!