THE COLD & HOT FACTS
ABOUT BODY TEMPERATURE
As you probably know, 98.6 F is considered a normal body temperature,
though healthy adults can range between 97.8 degrees F and 99 degrees F.
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Smoking Effects Your Body Temperature
- Your body temperature goes up when you smoke.
- The reason why the temperature at the tip of a cigarette is 95 degrees C, or 203 degrees F.
- Inhaling hot smoke raises raises your lung temperature.
- When your lungs are hot, they are unable to perform one of their responsibilities, which is to cool or remove heat from your body.
- As a result, it raises your core body temperature.
- Stop smoking & your body temperature will return to normal within about 20 minutes.
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Tell a Lie & Your Nose Heats Up
- Lying may not cause your 'nose to grow,' but lying will heat it up.
- Despite this distinction from the wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy, Spanish researchers at the University of Granada still dubbed their finding the 'Pinocchio efect'
- Using thermal imaging, they were able to demonstrate that the anxiety brought on by
a lie causes the nose & the areas around the eyes to get warm.
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A Cold Heart May Protect Your Brain
- Doctors at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore developed a technique that purposefully lowers a person's body temperature to prevent long-term disabling effects.
- Known as therapeutic hypotermia , the treatment has been shown to prevent further injuries, especially in the brain, when performed within four hours of a heart attack.
Cayenne Can Heat Up Your Body Temperature
- Red pepper may not only add some spice to your meals, but it also can increase your body temperature as part of the digestive process.
- Researchers at Purdue University had dieters add about 1/2 t of red cayenne pepper to
their daily food intake as part of a study to see if it helped weight loss. - They also noted that red pepper helps to reduce appetite & increase calorie expenditure
& when you burn more calories, your body temperature rises temporarily. - All these effects were greater on people who didn't regularly sprinkle on the spicy condiment.
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Keep Your Cool to Sleep Better
- Your body temperature can affect how well you sleep.
- Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam found that people
slept better when their skin was slightly cooled. - The researchers fitted study participants with special suits that lowered their skin
temperature less than 1 degree centigrade. - Although the suits didn't affect the core body temperature, the participants didn't wake
up as often at night and went into a deeper sleep.
- Cooling the skin's surface temperature made the biggest difference among older
participants who had complained of insomnia..
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Older Is Colder When It Comes to Body Temperature
- If it seems like you're always cold, even during the dog days of summer, it could be
your age. - Studies show that as we age, our normal body temperature declines slightly.
- Researchers in Turkey measured the body temperature of 133 nursing home residents.
- They found that body temperature was
1. Below average in those 65 to 74 years old
2 .Lower still in people 75 to 84
3. Lowest among those older than 85
4. Some of whom had a body temperature as low as 93.5 degrees F under normal circumstances. - This is important to know, because seniors might actually be running a fever at lower temperatures than younger adults.
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A Hat May Not Help You Retain Body Heat
- Remember your mom telling you to wear a hat when it's cold outside because body heat
is lost through your head? - Turns out, her advice might not be completely spot-on, according to a report published
in the medical journal BMJ. - When you lose body heat & your body temperature drops, it does so from all parts of
your body at an equal rate. - How much body temperature you lose from your head depends on a number of factors, including how thick your hair is & how much energy you expend in the cold.
- But because a child's head is larger in proportion to the rest of the kid's body's surface,
children can lose more heat through their uncovered heads than adults.
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Men and Women Are Different
- When you're exposed to the cold, your body begins to conserve heat.
- It wants to protect your vital organs, such as your heart, lungs & brain, so more blood flows
to these areas & less to your hands & feet. - This affect happens to women much more quickly, meaning a woman's hands & feet will get colder more quickly than a man's.
- Women will feel the effects once the temperature goes below 70 degrees.
- For men, the chills won't kick in until the temp dips below 67 or 68 degrees.
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A Fever Can Be Your Friend
- You have a fever when your temperature is at least 1 degree over your normal body temperature, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.
- Most people fret over a fever, but it actually can be helpful.
1. A reaction of your body's immune system, a fever, indicates that you're fighting off
an infection & it can help your body return to normal.
2. In most cases, the higher your body temperature, the harder your body is working to
fight the infection.
3. But if your fever doesn't subside in a few days or if your temperature is abnormally high
in kids older than 6 months, that's about 103 degrees Farenheight call the doctor.
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Thermometers
- Glass thermometers can break & mercury is poisonous.
- If you have a mercury thermometer, you should get rid of it.
- Call your local fire department or health department to find out the safest way to do that.
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Other Things That Can Effect Your Temperature
- Lots of things can affect how hot or cold you feel, including the weather.
- However, caffeine, stress, dehydration, exercise & problems with your thyroid gland can
all affect your body's temperature.
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