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Every person reacts differently to thermal stress. Age, fitness level and underlying diseases play a major part in someone’s reaction to cold.
The best way to get through a winter is to eat as much as you can, grow a thick winter coat, reduce your body temperature and find a hole in the ground where you can hibernate. Too easy for some animals, but not for us humans who don’t acclimatize to the cold as well as we can to the heat. Nevertheless, repeated cold exposure does train the few defences to function more efficiently.
Cold Effects
Cold weather
What is in the book?
Chapter: Cold
Temperature extremes
Wind chill
Cold and the body
Temperature regulation
Risk factors
Cold-related disorders
Cold diuresis, allergy to cold
Cardiovascular disorders
Common cold and influenza
Diabetes, winter asthma
Raynaud’s disease
Frostnip, frostbite
Hypothermia, trench foot
Cold weather mortality
Beat the cold
