Influence of the Cold Buster (Trademark) Sports Bar on Heat Debt, Mobilizationand Oxidation of Energy Substrates

摘要

In a recent study, we have shown that the commercially available Cold Buster(TM)Sports bar, purported to improve cold resistance, did not do so in our subjects exposed to a relatively severe cold test. (Vallerand, Tikuisis, Ducharme and Jacobs, In Review). One possible explanation for our conflicting results is that our metabolic rate (M) was too high for the possibly small thermogenic effect of the bar to be measurable. The goal of this study was therefore to re-evaluate, under milder conditions, the influence of the Cold Buster(TM) on heat balance