Journal of Nutrition & Weight Loss

Arie S Torres

Publications

• Research Article
  The Effects of Cold Therapy in Losing Weight & Inches as well as Decreasing Body Mass Index, Body Fat Percentage, and Lowering of Health Risk Factor
  Author(s): Arie S TorresArie S Torres
  
  Introduction: Many studies have been done to show that cold exposure increases calorie burning thru increased non-shivering thermogenesis (NST), increased putative brown adipose tissue (bat) activation, and increasing the resting metabolic rate (RMR). But there has been no documentation on its end result of producing weight loss, inch loss, as well as decreased fat mass. Cold wraps have been used by slimming centre’s since the 1960’s to lose weight by thermogenesis and recently, they have converted to cold machine treatments Materials and Methods: A chronologic sample of 41,098 slimming treatments of 1,859 patients coming from 11 slimming centres in the Philippines with cold machine slimming programs consisting of 13,638 cold machine treatments were collated from November 4, 2014 to July 29, 2015. A random sample of 10 patients per .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2593-9793.17.2.107

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