Observations about perambulation...
Jul. 28th, 2010 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lhskarkaApparently, my daily lunchtime walk has added benefits beyond exercise and waist-line reduction. I'm also re-building my heat tolerance.
Today's Here and Now had an interesting mini-interview on the downside of air-conditioning with the author of this book: Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World. He also happens to be from Salina.
The tidbit that caught my attention in the interview was the bit where he discusses how our bodies lose the ability to regulate our internal temperatures, specifically the ability to withstand higher heat indexes, the longer we spend in air-conditioned environments.
So, when your parents or your grand-parents tell you how they grew up without air-conditioning in 100-degree weather and never needed it, they may very well NOT be exaggerating - this time. :)
Today's Here and Now had an interesting mini-interview on the downside of air-conditioning with the author of this book: Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World. He also happens to be from Salina.
The tidbit that caught my attention in the interview was the bit where he discusses how our bodies lose the ability to regulate our internal temperatures, specifically the ability to withstand higher heat indexes, the longer we spend in air-conditioned environments.
So, when your parents or your grand-parents tell you how they grew up without air-conditioning in 100-degree weather and never needed it, they may very well NOT be exaggerating - this time. :)
