Is this the easiest way to lose weight? Body-cooling vest could help burn up the calories without having to go to the gym

Accumulating a sweat happens to be regarded as among the best ways of burning calories and slimming down.

But researchers now claim an entirely different approach may help within the fight against weight problems - also it does not involve hrs of rigorous exercise.

Simple cooling vests which lower your body's temps may help lose weight, based on the new information.

No discomfort, no gain: But new information claim that cooling your body lower, instead of accumulating a sweat, happens to be an efficient way of slimming down

Researchers state that brown body fat - a 'good' body fat which burns calories - is triggered through the cold.

It's naturally found in humans and consumes calories to create warmth. It had been known that could be triggered by contact with cold, inside a process known as non-shivering thermogenesis.

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How you can activate brown body fat on signal has puzzled researchers - until a group in the Joslin Diabetes Center examined to ascertain if the drug ephedrine could be utilized for a trigger.

Even though they conclude it cannot, the work they do has opened up the doorway to more research into how cold, or agents which mimic the results of cold, could be employed to fight weight problems.

Dr Aaron Cypess stated: 'We suggest that agents that actually work much like cold in initiating brown body fat particularly can offer promising methods to fighting weight problems while reducing other unwanted effects.

'At the same time frame, now that we know that ephedrine isn't the method of doing it.'

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For that study, they gave participants injections of either ephedrine or perhaps a control saline solution and requested these to put on 'cooling vests' with water at 57 F pumped into them. Their body fat activity ended up being measured.

Scientists discovered that brown body fat was exactly the same following both ephedrine and saline injections. However, following the subjects used the cooling vests for 2 hrs, their brown body fat activity was stimulated considerably.

Both interventions - ephedrine injections and also the putting on from the cooling vests - did increase the risk for same quantity of calories being burned, Dr. Cypess noted.

He stated: 'But we discovered that ephedrine wasn't using brown body fat to get it done. This is actually the very first time it's been discovered that ephedrine doesn't switch on brown body fat.'

Both techniques had results of the supportive central nervous system - which triggers the flight or fight response - for example elevated bloodstream pressure, only the cold triggered brown body fat.

Dr Cypess stated utilizing the cold effects may help reduce calories with no unwanted effects connected with ephedrine.

He stated: 'Mild cold exposure encourages (brown body fat) energy expenditure with less other systemic effects, recommending that cold triggers specific supportive paths.

'Agents that mimic cold activation of (brown body fat) could give a promising method of dealing with weight problems while reducing systemic effects.'

One way might be only to design cooling vests that individuals can put on to assist them to slim down.

The next study may have subjects put on the vests for many days to determine what goes on, Dr. Cypess stated.

He stated: 'Will they obtain the same health advantages they'd have experienced with several days of exercise? This is the big question.'