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Shivering actually helps warm our bodies up.
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During pregnancy, the body’s capacity to regulate temperature changes. Here’s how to cool down and the overheating red flags to watch out for.
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Looking after a baby during extreme heat events takes a little planning and a lot of patience. Here are some practical steps you can take.
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Keeping warm in winter and cool in summer is down to more than the length of your hair.
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If you think your medicine may be contributing to overheating, it’s very important you keep taking your medicine. Discuss your symptoms with your pharmacist or doctor.
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Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
Missing person calls involving an individual with dementia increased by between 10 and 50 per cent across all Ontario regions over the last five years.
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With an increasing number of people living with dementia worldwide and in Canada, it’s crucial to find ways to promote community awareness and prevent people with dementia from getting lost.
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No, you’re not imagining it. You can pee more in winter. Mostly, there’s nothing to worry about. But it could be a sign of hypothermia.
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On a hot and humid day, the fan is your friend. But ice cream won’t make the difference you think it will.
A Salvation Army emergency vehicle is set up as a cooling station during a heatwave in Calgary, Alta. on June 30.
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Heat stroke is a danger in extreme temperatures, but a major risk factor for dying during a heat wave is cardiovascular disease and other pre-existing health conditions.
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When the weather outside is very hot, it can make us feel really unhappy. Here’s why.
A humpback whale near the Antarctic ice.
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The cetacean brain has a specialised thermogenic system that helps the animal’s brain to produce enough heat to maintain a functional brain temperature.
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Sweating is usually our body’s way of stopping us from overheating. But if excess sweating is a problem for you, there’s help.
On a hot day, does taking a cold shower make you cooler?
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Some people swear by cold showers to cope with a long, hot summer. Here’s why they’d be better off taking a warm one.
The fossilised skull of an Odontocyclops displays its pineal foramen.
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Mammals’ ancestors had a third eye and the fossil record of its disappearance tells us the story of the evolution of one of our most important features: warm blood.
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Researchers are finding new ways to keep them cool.
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An electric fan cools you down in extreme heat, but not if you’re old.
Per litre of sweat produced, we can dump around half a million calories of heat from our bodies.
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Our success as a species is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration.
Keeping office workers from feeling too hot or too cold is no simple task.
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If you work in an office, chances are you or the person sitting next to you has grumbled about it being too hot or cold.
Women often report that they feel colder than men in the same environment.
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Fever indicates a problem, but is there anything wrong with feeling excessively cold rather than actually being cold?