Even though your body feels different in hot or cold rooms, you don’t feel hungrier or less hungry—your appetite stays the same.
Scientific Claim
Passive heat and cold exposure do not significantly alter subjective hunger, thirst, or composite appetite scores in healthy young men, despite changes in food reward and hormonal levels.
Original Statement
“Accordingly, hunger scores (P = 0·554) were not altered.”
Evidence Quality Assessment
Claim Status
appropriately stated
Study Design Support
Design supports claim
Appropriate Language Strength
definitive
Can make definitive causal claims
Assessment Explanation
Repeated-measures design with high-frequency VAS assessments and non-significant P-values support definitive language. The claim accurately reflects the null finding without overstatement.
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (1)
Twenty four-hour passive heat and cold exposures did not modify energy intake and appetite but strongly modify food reward
Even though being too hot or too cold made people want different kinds of food and changed some body chemicals, they didn’t feel hungrier or thirstier overall—so the claim is right.