thermogenesis

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This calorie burning through heat production is known as thermogenesis.

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Instead of lowering temperature, they investigated whether diet alone could switch on thermogenesis.

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After a series of experiments in mice, the team found that diet induced thermogenesis produced almost the same weight loss as constant exposure to five degrees Celsius around the clock.

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"The mice that burned the most energy ate the same amount of food as the others, and they didn't move more or less. We saw a 20% increase in their thermogenesis. They lost more weight, and it was not because they ate less or exercised more -- they simply generated more heat," explains Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld.

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Fat was burned in beige fat during both cold induced thermogenesis and diet induced thermogenesis.

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