Spending a full day in very hot or very cold rooms doesn’t make people eat more or less food overall, even though their bodies react to the temperature.

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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

Even though being too hot or too cold made people want different kinds of food, they still ate about the same amount overall—so their total calories didn’t change.

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

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DOI: 10.1017/S0007114524000825

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