Hot and cold rooms change what kinds of food you crave, but they don’t make you worse at tasting or smelling food.

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Twenty four-hour passive heat and cold exposures did not modify energy intake and appetite but strongly modify food reward

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2024 Jul 28

When it was cold or hot, people wanted different kinds of food—like hot food when it was cold and cold food when it was hot—but their ability to smell or taste didn’t change, and the study didn’t test that part, so it doesn’t contradict the claim.

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No contradicting evidence found

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Twenty four-hour passive heat and cold exposures did not modify energy intake and appetite but strongly modify food reward

Score: 46

DOI: 10.1017/S0007114524000825

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