Heating May Make Us Fat

Heating May Make Us Fat!

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Check out this article at the BBC where Dutch researchers at the Maastricht University Medical Centre recommend heating homes to no more than 19°C (66°F) because:

Heating May Make Us Fat.

Below that temperature (19°C) they say our bodies continue to burn calories to keep us warm.

Interestingly the same article suggests, further on, that heating above 23°C (73°F) also causes us to burn calories by sweating to keep cool.

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