1937-03-22 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 1937.

Stiff collars are cooler than soft collars but the skin of the great toe is man's hot spot

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you take it at regular they drink plenty of water, they Water is water!" Con- still feel pepless, and out of sorts, Every day, in the aver- on hot days. Of course one shonti there is a total water not eat heavy meals, or foods difi- Did cult to digest, but frequent snatches a of light foodstuffs, eaten while drinking plenty of water, will help you carry on much better.

By J. Robert

Burke, M. D.

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THAT perennial, and always ex- wearing less on their legs and feet, other beverages you, or some other weather to produce the proper bal-

for yuh?" will soon become obsolete solving their particular heat prob- effects noted. This is easily ex- may feel reasonable cool, you must now that properly air-conditioned lem. It is an interesting fact that plained. You, or that other person, eat large quantities of food which homes, trains, and places of busi- the skin on the great toe is espec- may not know that most of the contain a high percentage of water, ness are increasing in number ially responsive to the necessity of common foods you. eat are 90% or you must drinkwater to which Most of us, however, not yet able the body to lose heat, as a definite water and, also, the small amount salt has been added, or cat food to afford having the air we breathe relationship between the basal meta- of liquid you do drink happens to the same time you drink The drink filtered, washed, cooled and dried, bolic rate and the dissipation of be taken at the proper time so that ing of large quantities of water to meet summer conditions, must-heat from this toe has been es- its full benefits are realised. The alone to compensate for the loss of carry on the battle for comfort tablished: That is probably why individual who drinks two quarts fluids taking place in the lungs, when the thermometer climbs and your feet swell more in summer of water a day and most of it be- skin; and kidneys is not sufficient. our arch-enemy "high humidity" It is high time for someone to de- tween meals, or upon retiring pro--The old warning about not eating pays his too frequent visits. Would vise more suitable summer-weather bably does not derive as much good much food in warm weather is not you like to be cooler this summer? raiment for men. Something must as the sparse drinker who does it a good one. Some people will tell It can be done.

be done to allow them greater expos- when he should.

you that they just have a bowl of You ask: "What difference can milk and crackers for lunch, but, Why is heat produced in the body ure of legs and arms in-polite society-

spite of the fact that and how is it eliminated? As you Some still hold out against shorts it make when you drink this water in are reading this, heat is being gen-probably due to the fact that the as long as erated in your tissues, due to the average male is inherently more intervals metabolic chemical reactions which modest than his sister; although sider this. burn up the food you have eaten he seems inconsistent when you age adult, be you vegetarian or not. When you contrast the modesty of his street turnover of about 4 gallons.

-on beaches you imagine you were such turn a page, muscular activity oc wear and his nudity

the curs, and a great amount of energy which is liberated to pro- duce this movement is changed into heat. Fanning yourself may make your face feel cooler, but, actually, you are increasing your body mus- cles, the more heat is developed; Perhaps it is a case of "Tous if sponge? Part of you the stom- with salt. Then before you drink, and if more heat is produced than by land and none if by sea."

ach, intestinal walls, salivary flip up the lid and with an aesthetic can be eliminated, the body tem- A decided improvement has been glands, liver, etc., return the water gesture pinch up some salt and drop perature rises and you feel hot. made in formal evening clothes they drain from the blood. But the it into the water. Two pinches Now to get rid of this hest. About Dinner jackets are being made in kidneys, large intestine, skin, sweat dissolved in a glassful of water will three-fourths of the total heat loss very light-weight materials Vests glands, etc., steal from one to six make a palatable drink which will from the body takes place through are backless and light: Shirts are quarts from the general supply, and help keep you cool. conduction, radiation and convection pliable, but at the same time adhere this leaves the body. We all are Salt is not expensive. With the from the skin surface. The heat is to the chest line so there is no just smart enough to drink when proper use of it, and a little more carried by the blood stream to the bulging. The new formal-shirt, we're thirsty; but few of us drink sane judgment in the buying, and skin, where it is dissipated From weighs just a bit less than half of enough at the proper times and in wearing, of your summer raiment, this you will readily agree that free previous ones. Trousers are of loose the right proportions.

you will experience the luxury of perspiration is necessary in hot ly woven serges. The old-fashioned, What does all this mean? Simply a cool summer; and weather. Every time we breathe, and cooler, dancing pump with its this. If you wish to retain water laugh, sneeringly, at water is evaporated from the lungs black ribbon is back. This is be enough in your system during hot uncomfortable ones. and this takes care of the other ginning to take on the tone of a set- fourth of the total heat loss. When of fashion notes, so we'd better the surrounding air contains a get back to our own skin game. great amount of moisture, the Investigators have recently learn- possibility of evaporation from the ed new facts about the normal, ac- skin is reduced" and this accounts tion of water in our systems. The for our discomfort on a humid day. person who tells you that you are Evaporation is hastened by moving "all wet" is nearer the truth than air, even though the current be very he realises, since your body is 70% slight. That old saying "It isn't water. Being the most abundant the heat-it's the humidity" was constituent of your tissues, it is founded on fact. Discomfort, or taken up and released more rapidly more serious trouble, in summer is than any other substance.

You due to the fact that the individual would die more quickly if all water is exposed to heat, is producing intake be stopped than from any more heat by his actions, is in a other form of starvation. If you place where body heat loss is diffi- were not allowed to eat or drink it cult or impossible, d has not would be impossible, except for a taken enough liquids properly. very short time, to supply enough Female legs, and anus, have un- water, by injections under the skin limited possibilities-Male legs are or through the lower bowel, to mus- usually considered just a means of tain life-

getting a man somewhere, and his Why should you be obliged to lug arms prehensile aids which may get around so much

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