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Weight Loss after 5, 10, 15, and 20 Cold Wrap Treatments in a Private Slimming Center in the Philippines

Ariel S Torres

Introduction: Cold Wraps have been used by slimming centers in Switzerland since the 1960’s to lose weight by reactive thermogenesis. Being warm-blooded, we need to maintain a homeostatic temperature so exposure to cold with resultant hypothermia would signal the body to burn fat. Cold Wraps were a novel idea and it boasts of being able to burn as much as a thousand calories for each treatment done for only several minutes but whose effect lasts for 2-3 days. Though a few studies have been done to show that Cold exposure increases Calorie Burning, there has been no documentation on its end result of producing actual concrete weight loss results.
Materials and Methods: A random sample of 325 patients in a private slimming centre in the Philippines was chosen. After application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 64 patients remained. All had 5 Cold Wrap treatments, but only 46 continued to have 10 Cold Wrap treatments, 22 continued to have 15 Cold Wrap treatments, and 8 continued to have 20 Cold Wrap treatments. Subjects were existing patients several months to a couple of years before the data was collected in December of 1998.
Results: The average weight loss after 5 Cold Wrap treatments by mean is 3.22 lbs. (206.66/64), by mode is 2 lbs. (13 patients), and by median is 5.4 lbs. (highest 10 lbs., lowest 0.8 lbs.). The average weight loss after 10 Cold Wrap treatments by mean is 5.51 lbs. (253.36/46), by mode is 5 lbs. (5 patients), and by median is 8.5 lbs. (highest 15 lbs., lowest 2 lbs.). The average weight loss after 15 Cold Wrap treatments by mean is 9.67 lbs. (212.76/22), by mode is 7 & 10 lbs. (3 patients), and by median is 9 lbs. (highest 14 lbs., lowest 4 lbs.). The average weight loss after 20 Cold Wrap treatments by mean is 10.39 lbs. (83.1/8), by mode is 5 lbs. (2 patients), and by median is 9.75 lbs. (highest 14.5 lbs., lowest 5 lbs.). The average weight loss per treatment for the first 5 treatments (1st to 5th) is 0.644 lbs. (3.22/5), second 5 treatments (6th to 10th) is 0.458 lbs. (2.29/5), third 5 treatments (11th to 15th) is 0.832 lbs. (4.16/5), and the fourth 5 treatments (16th to 20th) is 0.144 lbs. (0.72/5). The overall average weight loss per treatment (1st to 20th) is 0.5195 lbs. (2.078/4).
Conclusion: There is weight loss after Cold Wrap treatments in a private Slimming Centre in the Philippines. The average weight loss per treatment is 0.5195 lbs.