At high altitude can lose your weight

(Health.com)According to the study which was published today on the website of the journal Obesity. A new study that found that obese men lost a few pounds after spending just one week at high altitude, even though they did not feel hungry or exercise more than usual. And the weight stayed off for at least four weeks after the men returned to a lower elevation.

It’s a universal finding that people lose more weight at high altitudes,” says Robert Roach, PhD, the research director of the Altitude Research Center at the University of Colorado in Denver. “The really new and exciting thing in this study was taking obese people to a high altitude and showing the same effect we have seen in non-obese people.”

Apparently, the lower oxygen at high altitudes has been shown to dampen appetites and increase metabolism. so, if metobolisme body increases, the burning of fat in our bodies will work perfectly so that it can lose weight.

In the study, 20 men who weighed an average of 232 pounds spent one week at roughly 8,700 feet above sea level, at a research station just below the summit of Germany’s tallest mountain. While at the research station, the men could eat and drink as much as they wanted and were only allowed to take slow walks around the facility, to prevent them from increasing their activity above normal levels.