Why Don’t Children Get As Cold As Adults?

You too in the middle of winter Children walking around in thin clothes outside Do you feel like you have to dress in layers?

If so, explain this situation There is a scientific reason…

Our body starts burning fat before it starts to shiver from the cold.

However, it is not white fat as we know it, it is brown fat. While white fat functions as an energy store in our body; Brown fat produces heat by burning energy directly.

brown fat cells, are much smaller than white fat cells and looks more like muscles. They contain large amounts of mitochondria, giving them their brown color.

Brown fat is found in certain parts of our body: neck, shoulders, upper arms, spine and abdomen. Brown fat in these areas helps regulate body temperature by warming the blood.

For example, babies cannot tremble when they are born because their muscle mass and muscle-brain coordination are not sufficiently developed.

That’s why they need brown fat to warm their bodies. of babies 2% to 5% of body weight comes from brown fat occurs.

The amount of brown fat, reaches its peak during adolescence In other words, we can say that the young people wearing shorts we see in winter are not actually cold.

However less brown fat as the body ages produces and this causes the elderly to feel colder.

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