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Cold and Health
Your car suffers, too. The battery goes flat or the engine cracks if you push it too hard. Cold weather is the time to turn up the heater at home and at work. On such days, the energy consumption reaches peaks equally as high as during heat waves. The demand can be too high and blackouts occur.
Heat Loss
To guarantee wellbeing, the body’s core temperature needs to be maintained at around 36.9°C. What comprises the core? It includes all the vital organs such as heart, lungs, liver and kidneys ‘central’ to your body. Because the brain is also important for your survival, it is part of the core – despite being nowhere near the center
Surrounding the core is the periphery. It includes the skin, the muscles, arms and
legs. Shake the hands of someone on a cold day and you’ll find out that the temperature
of the periphery can be well below the core temperature – icy-
Cold is responsible for more excess deaths and disorders than heat is. The higher
figures aren’t often apparent, however, as cold snaps don’t have the same immediate
impact as heat waves do. Cold-
Human health is not the only casualty of cold weather, as wild, farm and domestic animals also suffer greatly. Newborn lambs and calves often don’t survive an unseasonably cold outbreak. Some crops succumb to spring frosts, while fruit trees shed their flowers before they set fruit, leaving the farmer with a reduced or zero income. Substances expand in heat and contract in cold. The contractions of metal and concrete may become so severe that buildings suffer permanent damage.
Cold and Health
