Sentences with phrase «generating body heat»

This is the energy (calories) used up in generating body heat, keeping the brain, lungs, liver, kidney, heart etc. working properly.

Contracting muscles of the heart, diaphragm and limbs; ion pumps that maintain the electrical properties of nerves; and biochemical reactions that break down food and synthesize new tissues (to name a few) generate body heat continuously.

Newborns have brown fat to help generate body heat, but it seems to melt away as part of the aging process.

Brown fat generates body heat by burning calories.

Kathryn Janda, author of a recent report on home energy use from the UK Energy Research Centre said: «Often, buildings don't perform as expected, partially because occupants behave in more complex ways than designers account for; they open windows, leave doors open, generate body heat, keep tropical fish tanks and install plasma TV screens.»

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Also, it is well - known that body cells alter their extracellular environment by exchanging chemicals, generating heat, and so on.8

Remember, your baby isn't generating any extra body heat and he / she has the wind created by your speed to deal with.

When electricity passes through the wires woven into the middle of the pad, heat is generated and passes through the fabric of the pad into the body.

When two bodies press together, it generates lot of sweat and heat and with this your baby feels very uncomfortable.

For instance, newborns lose heat easily, and preemies in particular have trouble regulating their body temperature, as they lack the energy or fat reserves to generate heat and the body mass to maintain it.

This extra weight is deposited as brown fat in areas around the body to generate heat.

The human body is like an engine that continuously generates large quantities of heat, and its radiator, so to speak, disperses heat least effectively in hotter climes.

Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.

The blood vessels are arranged such that veins carrying blood back to the body's core give up heat generated within the ever - active muscles to the blood coming from the heart in arteries, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

Unlike energy - storing white fat, brown fat burns energy to generate heat, which can help maintain body weight and prevent obesity in rodents.

Brown fat, the classic heat - generating fat, helps regulate body temperature, especially in newborns.

While most fat cells in the human body store energy, everyone has a small subset of brown fat cells that do the opposite — burn energy and generate heat.

It has long been argued that the ability to generate your own body heat allows you to remain active even when it is cold.

«We redesigned the garment using a fusion of heat and sweat maps to, for example, make flaps bigger where the body generates more heat.»

Last month, the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to warm a nearby office building.

These apparently evolved not to store but to burn energy — quickly, as a way of generating heat and keeping the body warm in cold conditions, as well as possibly to get rid of excess caloric intake.

Being able to generate their own heat, these small rodent - like creatures did not need to bask in the sun to raise their body temperature and activity levels, so nocturnal life was an option — and an appealing one.

They can not generate their own body heat metabolically, the way you and I can.

Scientists generally prefer the term endothermic to describe animals that generate heat to control their body's temperature.

Some try to avoid potatoes because of the starch and calories, but our bodies need them in the wintertime to help generate heat to promote efficient biochemical reactions throughout to maintain health and wellness through the long winter months.

Infrared saunas generate heat waves that penetrate deep into the body and produce the same kind of sweat you would experience with vigorous exercise.

This pranayama is said to generate heat in the body and to burn down excessive fat.

The heat generated by the Krebs cycle is used to help maintain a healthy body temperature.

This relaxing chair pose is an amazing yogic stance to generate heat and energy in the body when in the slump.

The idea behind involving more and more of protein based food in your diet is to burn more calories as the metabolic process requires more energy in breaking down food involving protein and the more the metabolic process works, the more is the consumption of energy resulting in more fat loss due to the heat generated during the processing of food in the body.

What to wear: «A highly aerobic activity that generates a lot of body heat, your clothes need to protect from the elements while allowing sweat to ventilate away,» Braganza explains.

Through oxygenation, the body generates heat and energy from its fuel, and disposes of wastes.

On the other hand, swimming for an hour or two in cool lap - lane temperature water is an incredible way of losing weight because not only are you burning calories to swim (perform work) but you are burning calories to keep your body warm enough (generating heat).

You can not «decide» to generate more body heat.

The heat generated by an infrared sauna stimulates energy at a cellular level which, in turn, increases the body's production of white blood cells.

And remember, the primary goal of sauna therapy is to generate a heat response in your body.

My body trying to generate heat.

When its body senses that the skin is getting cold, the internal organs will try to compensate by generating more heat.

While outdoor pets will require more calories in the winter to generate enough body heat and energy to stay warm, a pet's body condition must be monitored.

These dogs are all less likely to generate enough body heat to be warm and cozy, so the extra warmth of a coat or sweater helps.

But while some dogs were meant to run through snowdrifts, other pups struggle to generate and retain enough body heat to stay comfortable on their own, Dr. Rachel Barrack, a New York City - based veterinarian, told The Dodo.

Activity — If dogs are going to be very active while outside, they may generate enough extra body heat to keep them comfortable even if the temperature is quite low.

Heat is generated during exercise because work is an inefficient process and rectal body temperature usually increases slightly (2 — 3 °C) after sprint or endurance exercise (Bjotvedt et al. 1993, Kozlowski et al. 1985, Nazar et al. 1992).

Smaller dogs may have more difficulty generating and retaining body heat, so they're good candidates for sweaters or coats that not only protect them from the elements but also provide warmth.

Newborn puppies can't generate their own body heat until they develop the shiver reflex at around two and half weeks.

Petmate (petmate.com): The Aspen Pet Self - Warming Bed, constructed from plush faux lambswool and corduroy fabrics, is lined with a layer of material that generates warmth by reflecting the pet's own body heat — no plug - in heat source is required.

While outdoor pets will require more calories in the winter to generate enough body heat and energy to stay warm, pay attention to your pet's body condition.

The way the material feels, the temperature of the body, the delicacy and strength... There is something very sensuous about this material, these bodies, the act of rubbing and the visceral sexiness of touch and texture combined with the weight of the plaster and the mysterious heat it generates, it's dreamy work.»

A new technology developed by Korean researchers uses ultra-thin, flexible materials to generate electricity from body heat.

I do know that losing colonies in their first year is by no means uncommon, as bees spend an awful lot of energy building up wax in their hives, and generating sufficient numbers to let their body heat carry them through the winter.