Thursday, February 4, 2010

High Altitude Weight Loss

See this Wired Science article which summarizes a scientific study in the Feb.4 issue of the journal Obesity (no link available). It reports that overweight individuals lose weight at high altitudes without dieting or exercise.

The DrsC spend the middle third of every year at an elevation of 6300 ft, and your humble scribe thought he'd experienced some of this happening to his own too-well-upholstered body. It is interesting to see there is science supporting my purely anecdotal experience.

If you were going to start a fat farm, doing so in the Rockies or Sierras would make sense, no?