Waking this morning to yet more sub zero temperatures, I pondered (not for the first time) why women feel the cold more than men. My husband’s ‘balmy’ is my ‘glacial’. His Costa del Sol is my Siberian hinterland. I sometimes wear so many layers in bed it’s like sleeping with a jumble sale.
Brass monkeys ....
Apparently, it’s because women are fat. Or at least, “Women have a more evenly distributed fat layer and can pull all their blood back to their core organs.” This means that less blood flows to our hands and feet, and as a result we feel cold (hence there’s some truth in the expression “cold hands, warm heart”).
As someone with two sons, this doesn’t bode well for the coming years when they are old enough to side with their father over the battle of the thermostat. They already strip down to their underpants at the slightest opportunity (the boys, that is, not their father. Anymore. Hmmm.).
However, all is not lost, because although I live in a male dominated household, it is an English male dominated household. Which means lots of cups of tea. And they keep you warm, right?!
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