On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:33:57 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Friday, 31 October 2014 11:48:23 UTC, Uncle Peter wrote:
2 degrees is required to MAKE you shiver. This (along with reduced blood flow to your skin and brown fat cells becoming active) prevents it going much further. You need to lose 17C to die.

and you will die, shivering just means you might last a little longer.

It's very difficult to lose 17C. And you can shiver indefinitely as long as you don't starve (it does burn a lot of calories, and I've found it an easy way to lose weight fast - you can either just be cold, or even better be cold while exercising, then you lose weight twofold).

My fingers don't mind the cold, they in fact go RED to increase blood to them to prevent frostbite.

I would have thought everyone's does but I don;t think that pre3vents frost bite, plenty of atric explorers have experience frost bit and plenty choose top wear gloves.

It depends on how good your circulation is I guess. I have no problems with cold fingers or toes.

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