
The world and its inhabitants are looking for ways to slim down (at least until the fashionable items that will impose: lift and tuck to take another walk around the square), so here’s another joke: a frozen vest. It may not help with very close relationships (“you’re still ice”) but hey, what is pain compared to beauty?
According to American doctor Wayne B. Hayes, swimmers have increased calories burned because the water is cold. According to the Dutch researchers Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt, Boris Kingma, Anouk van der Lans and Lisje Schellen, cold intensifies metabolism (how did we miss that?…) so…
The frozen vest is ready as a design and materials, but production and trading it is still considered expensive. Until it hits the market, delays are not justified: bags with ice cubes in the morning, at noon, in the evening, on the back and on the chest. And mostly during sleep: if it snows or there’s a blizzard, a pile on the balcony. And morning fitness!
The “greenhouse effect” won’t get us down! Freezing and style: that will be the answer for anything that minimal living fails to achieve…