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Good News! Shivering Is a Form of Exercise

Posted February 09, 2014 12:55 PM

From Neatorama:

Enjoying the brutal winter weather? It may count as your daily workout. According to the results of a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, being cold accelerates the metabolization of fat. This is because of the way that brown fat reacts to cold temperatures. Brown fat is adipose tissue that can burn and create heat. When a person exercises, s/he produces the hormone irisin, which converts white fat to brown fat.

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02/09/2014 5:46 PM

Exercise? Heck, after this Winter it ought to be classified as an Olympic event.

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02/09/2014 5:59 PM

If only you could freeze your butt off, with that actually being the part frozen off.

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02/10/2014 9:10 AM

Next week......

Good News! Looking for the TV remote Is a Form of Exercise.

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02/10/2014 2:28 PM

Old age is making me healthier.

Everytime I come up from the basement to get something, I get upstairs and forget what it was I looking for. I go back down the stairs, re-establish my thoughts, and go back up the stairs again. Lather, rinse, repeat my way to aerobic health.

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