The Etceterist | 04/09/2009 12:05 pm
Dr. Pat Wexler Predicts 'Cold Rooms' to Fight Fat
Dr. Pat Wexler
ETCETERIST: I just read all about the new research published today in The New England Journal of Medicine that disproves the theory that humans lose all their brown cells — cells that act like a furnace and burn up fat — after infancy. Apparently, cold temperatures, between 61 and 66 degrees, can or might stimulate any brown cells we have and — voila! — fabulous weight loss without Oreos deprivation. What great news for a gluttonous society, but what does this mean for the medical beauty business?
DR. PAT WEXLER: It doesn’t mean spend the weekend in your freezer. But it is fascinating. I predict, after more research, the new big thing will be "cold rooms" in spas and some medical offices.
ETC: Is this really possible — brown fat cells that burn calories? Losing weight without reducing appetite?
PW: The research is fascinating. Think of the shift … Every other research has gone into stopping your appetite in order to lose weight and this research has nothing to do with appetite. It is a breakthrough.
ETC: Hmm … this could be a boon for you know who.
PW: Who?
ETC: Sarah Palin. Instead of Saint Tropez in the summer for the warmth and sea breezes the rich will want to be going to Alaska where they think they might keep better in a cold climate while losing weight.
PW: I wouldn’t sell the house in Saint-Tropez yet.
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First, we have to find out what percentage of brown fat we have. Do we all have the same amount? Do fat people have more or less brown fat than thin people? Can we make brown fat? How much brown fat does it take to burn a calorie…and at what temperature?
I venture to say I’ll be dead, buried and still fat before we get those answers;-(
Another weight loss theory, another way for someone to make a buck off people trying to loose weight.
The answer is and always has been simple - eat less than you burn off. Period. Case closed.
We were stationed in Omaha once. Now it gets very COLD there in winter. There were a lot of fat people there. Everybody theoretically should have been thin if this is right.
I’m just reporting in that I am rubbing a strawberry half on my teeth, EXFOLIATING them while I read this. (Advice I received on Wowsers.) I also opened all the windows and turned a fan on….high speed. I feelth thinnthr alreadth. Sorry. :::removing strawberry::: I feel thinner already, and I can see Russia from my house, which is indeed remarkable since I don’t live in Alaska.
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O K Here is my dillemma!
My `17 yo daughter continually cries after soccer. She is a gifted ball handler, yet work as hard as she does she cannot maintain a level of fitness and stamina that others simply arrive with! She has (by nature) developed a bit of a trunk below her waste and blames my genetics! I have enjoyed running as a past time in my youth, but never really any competative endeavors. unless you consider math club!
She is so upset and any rationalization about physique and genetics does not asuagige her distemper!
Any suggestions dears!