Calories and Weight Loss
How are sweating, calories and weight loss connected. You already know that when your body heats up, it tries to cool off by sweating. Sweating occurs because of the body’s temperature rising internally from aerobic exercise, muscle building workout routines and other physical activity. It can also be stimulated by an external heat source, such as a sauna or the sun. When sweat evaporates it creates a heat loss from the body.
When skin is wet with our sweat, heat is transferred to the fluid (sweat) on the surface of the skin. Then, when the sweat is heated enough, it vaporizes. When the vapor leaves the skin and enters the atmosphere, it takes heat from the surface of the skin with it. By doing this it cools the body.
For the body to evaporate one gram of sweat it uses zero point five six eight calorie. What this means is the more you sweat the more calories your body will burn off. The amount of calories you burn off is limited to only the time it takes for sweat to evaporate. Sweat is produced from what’s called lymph fluid. When lymph fluid is transferred out of the body, toxins are eliminated.
Hans K Anderson
