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You’ve heard the expression – giving someone “the cold shoulder”…

02 Wednesday Sep 2020

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Well, according to the University of Toronto, when people were excluded from a group, not only did they feel hurt – their temperature dropped and their skin got cold! And when people were ostracized, they also were more likely to reach for hot foods – rather than something room temperature or cold. The researchers say – what we feel emotionally and what we feel physically are tied together. So social rejection or isolation can hit us like a blast of cold air!

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You may want to embrace chilly air!

03 Monday Aug 2020

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Because being in an environment that’s a little chilly can cause your body to increase its internal temperature – which helps you burn more fat. So sleeping in a bedroom that’s 66 degrees could help you burn more calories while you sleep – just as sitting in a chilly office helps you burn fat at work. Because when your body has to work harder to stay warm, it turns on our healthy brown fat, which increases our metabolism.

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We yawn more in winter…

13 Monday Jan 2020

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Not because we’re more exhausted – it’s because the air is cooler. According to the journal Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, we yawn to keep our brain at the top of its game. Because when we inhale deeply, we’re replacing the hot, stagnant air in our lungs with the cool, fresh air around us. And the brain operates best when it’s cool – so yawning draws in cool air, and makes us more alert and quicker thinkers. So we yawn more in winter than summer because the air is cooler.

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