Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us?

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wasn’t that a stupid study where they didn’t cover the heads and then concluded that people lost most of their heat through the head?

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  • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have heard that you lose the most heat through your head from multiple sources as well. That would make sense, because I’m pretty sure the brain uses the most energy among all organs.

    Bin mir aber nicht sicher und lasse mich gerne eines besseren belehren.

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    • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the head has a large, thin surface with not much fat

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      • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh right, that’s a good point. It’s pretty much skin and skull, with no “isolation”.

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  • nous@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cannot remember if the study was stupid or if peoples interpretations of it where. But when covered up else where you will lose a lot of heat through your head. More so then if just an arm or just a leg was exposed as with your arms and legs your body will slow down blood flow through them to try and converse your core temperature - it cannot do that with your head.

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