Why is appetite increased when time cools? How to Cope With Winter on the Table

When temperatures decrease, hunger increases. Nutritionist Renata Bracale explains what scientific reasons are and how we should conduct ourselves at the table to ensure that we do not exceed the measure.

We need to improve our knowledge of biology to understand why we are more hungry when winter comes. It's all about mitochondries. The increase in hunger with the arrival of winter is absolutely normal explains Renata Bracale, professor at the University of Molise,

The lungs of our cells, which produce heat, must burn more calories to maintain body temperature. So more fats are used, which are usually used as a reserve.” Consider for a moment the hibernation animals. “They have developed a lot of fat tissue, which plays the role of saving energy, being very rich in mitocondria”.

Stress also increases hunger

There's winter stress as it's on this path we work hard and summer holidays are far away.

“Add to factors that contribute to the activism of the catologic system (i.e. production of adrenaline and noraderaline) are stress, training, dietary changes, and low temperatures. When the catechalogic system (for the reasons we saw above - stress - is activated), the release of adrenaline that sends the signal to the machine to use fat deposits to produce more heat.