Not sure how much I agree with this.
Turned down heating anyway :)
The Benefits of Being Cold
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#112You can also eat less...
That doesn't work. People eat when they are hungry, if someone is hungry when he doesn't actually need food, he'll still eat. Telling people not to eat isn't going to work. For some, small, subset of people it might work. Emotional eaters, or people who make really poor choices of what food. But for most people who are trying to lose weight your advice is useless because it doesn't work.
Same as when people are cold they turn up the temperature.
If you want to lose weight, you'll have to go through something unpleasant. Either it's being hungry, exercising a lot, or being cold.
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#113The article doesn't mention anything about clinical trials or anything beyond anecdotes and some n=1 experimentation that Cronise did on himself. And yet he has already started selling a product. That is really the sort of thing that needs more testing first, especially if it might have adverse effects as well (hopefully it was tested for safety and efficacy and it is just that the journalist doesn't mention it).
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#114I used to dislike the cold, always feeling I suffered greatly from it due to growing up in poverty in the UK and living in damp spaces (mould on the walls, condensation on the window, a cough always a breathe away). Then I was homeless, sleeping rough through UK winters. One does adapt, and fairly quickly too. The first nights I slept out during snowfall I didn't get much sleep as I was shivering too violently and un…
I've always wondered how homeless people deal with cold when I saw them during winter. It's amazing what our bodies can do.
It's also not uncommon for homeless people to freeze to death during the winters.
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#115I feel there is probably a little bit of truth to this, but not enough to make a huge difference. Maybe it will help you lose weight a bit faster in combination with eating less, excercise more etc.
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#116When I was about 10-12 y.o. I realy enjoyed cold. And it's kind of easy to get some snow in Russia. But then I've got pyelonephritis for a long time, so my parents did their best to keep me away from long direct cold exposure. Like, you know, don't go out without scarf, skating and skiing in wool socks etc. When it comes to ice swimming, most of swimmers are overweight... Seems like thier calories are not buring due…
The fat insulates them from the cold.
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#117Some groups of Australian Aborigines are known to enter a 'hibernation' state at night, in which temperatures plummet to near-freezing temperatures. Their bodies don't shiver - instead, they go into hypothermia, and 'revive' in the morning. There's a well-known paper from 1958 documenting some of this: 'Cold Adaptation in Australian Aborigines', by Scholander et al; but the more interesting account is from the Textbo…
When the English first began settling in New England in the 1600s, they were astonished that the local Indian men and boys wore only a loincloth during most of the year, even in snowy weather, adding leggings and a small shawl on the shoulders only in the coldest weeks of the New England winter. I would love to learn more about this adaptation, which has been witnessed in multiple ethnic groups by so many witnesses t…
Oops. That's "tall tales", not "tall tails", of course, but too late for me to edit.
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#118What's funny is that the article never suggests that the simplest solution would be to go swimming (Phelps example) instead of resorting to things like the cold vest or sleeping without a blanket. And swimming has more advantages than just being cold : it provides your cardio in a non damaging way (contrary to running) and you gain a valuable skill that can save your life.
Why would you say that running is damaging?
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#119I used to dislike the cold, always feeling I suffered greatly from it due to growing up in poverty in the UK and living in damp spaces (mould on the walls, condensation on the window, a cough always a breathe away). Then I was homeless, sleeping rough through UK winters. One does adapt, and fairly quickly too. The first nights I slept out during snowfall I didn't get much sleep as I was shivering too violently and un…
I've always wondered how homeless people deal with cold when I saw them during winter. It's amazing what our bodies can do.
One of our city-based HPC facilities has had a recurring fault where the aircon goes off for no obvious reason overnight. Eventually we figured out that a homeless guy had realised he could sleep above a vent from the aircon and be relatively warm - and had also realised he could turn off the system (it's not very secure) to cut the noise down but still be warm from the heat coming out.
At the moment we're just ignoring it as it's -3C just now in the daytime. Better to loose a few HPC jobs than freeze the poor guy.
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#120What's funny is that the article never suggests that the simplest solution would be to go swimming (Phelps example) instead of resorting to things like the cold vest or sleeping without a blanket. And swimming has more advantages than just being cold : it provides your cardio in a non damaging way (contrary to running) and you gain a valuable skill that can save your life.
Could you please elaborate on running being damaging?
It's actually an often repeated myth that running is bad for your joints/knees etc[1].
General medical consensus is that moderate running is an indicator for better joint health.
[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134861448/put-those-shoes-on-r...