Central heating can make you fat. Experts say many of us now keep our homes so cozy that we no longer have to burn as many calories to naturally warm up our bodies. Even when we do venture out, it is often via heated cars to offices and workplaces where the temperature is carefully controlled.
If the body is already warm it does not need to convert a brown fat known as adipose tissue into energy to generate heat. This latest study suggested that prolonged exposure to comfortable warm temperatures may permanently reduce the body’s ability to burn this brown fat.
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