This, of course, is not a house in the village with my grandmother, but also a good option: buy a house in the mountains and moved there to live, say researchers at the University of Navarre in Spain. Well, or at least get over there on vacation.
They spent a long study, which lasted eight and a half years. The results presented at the 22th European Congress on Obesity , it just ended in Prague.
In the experiment, attended by almost 10 thousand people - graduates of different universities. All of them lived in certain regions of Spain, the level of the sea that was different. Therefore, all study participants were divided into three groups: those that live at an altitude of about 120 meters above sea level, the second at an altitude of 120 to 455 meters, and the third group -in areas that are located above 455 meters.
At the beginning of the experiment, all participants had the weight of a normal body mass index. And in the end, that is after 8 years with a small, roughly one fifth of them (2,100) acquired overweight or obese. And most of them were those who lived "lower."
While those who live at high altitudes (from 450-500 meters above sea level and higher) had a predisposition to obesity is 13 percent less.
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Scientists explain these results that the N and high altitudes oxygen level below, and is known to reduce the feeling of hunger, which in turn reduces the risk of overweight.
Although, of course, there is also a factor: in the mountains, that is, rural areas, the minimum number of shops and cafes, people have a lot of walking, and the people there are often keeps all living creatures and the infield and eats useful environmental products without trans fats .
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