Re: OT: Richard Foote

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:42:42 GMT
Message-ID: <SZyX9.29454$LM3.1468649@news0.telusplanet.net>

Norman Dunbar wrote:

> Morning Vladimir,
>
> you wrote :
>

>>> And then quite a lot of people frozen to death there (and here in

> Russia,

>>> though we are more used to extremely cold weather - it's not
>>> unusual here...)

>
> Strangely enough, the country which suffers from the most cold related
> deaths every year, is England !
> I suspect this is some ratio or other, based upon size of population
> etc, but it appears that simply by not wearing hats (or keeping properly
> warm) , our bodies lose 33% of our heat through the head and that
> thickens the blood. Thick blood all day leads to a heart attack at
> night.
>
> An unfortunate thing for England to be 'top of the world' in.
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
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-38c where I live this morning, and wer'e in for about a week of it by the looks of things. I'll gladly send a few degrees of this colder weather to those that need it!

cheers Received on Wed Jan 22 2003 - 09:42:42 CST