Two-faced cold. The weapon of mass frostbite. Part 2

And should I read these hundreds of books,
To make sure that everything in the world has suffered
Goethe, Faust

Real japanese diet

Rarely are anyone alarmed by the strikingly accurate data indicated in physiology textbooks. And there must be many questions, one sinister of the other. How, for example, is it known that a person without food, only on water, can live exactly 45 days, and without water - only 3-5 days? In medical directories, figures are not published from floundering bay. The idea that a fanatic scientist conducted experiments on himself does not stand up to criticism - there should be a lot of subjects for reliability. 100 people voluntarily, for show, starved themselves to death?

Mr. Satoshi Sagovara, a Japanese military doctor, in the 30s of the last century investigated the survival rate without food and water on Manchu partisans. It was his scrupulous notes and drawings that became the source of this seemingly elementary truth.

I hope that now that the romantic blinkers about the humanity of science have been removed, the fact that people from 35 to 44 years old showed the best tolerance of cold will be perceived with due trepidation. Yoshimura Hirotaki - another evil genius of the Kwantung Army, found out how fast people of different ages freeze. In the protocols of his tests there is evidence of frostbite of the tissues of three-day-old infants.

The hypothesis of whether race is important for resistance to cold was checked by another "Doctor Evil" in the Dachau concentration camp - Sigmund Rasher. From his experiments, people shouted so that his laboratory had to be moved to the backyards and surrounded by a blank fence. The most persistent in the cold were captured Slavs - Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians. From the same nightmarish source it is known that with age a person loses the ability to tremble, moreover, men earlier than women. And trembling, by the way, is the very mechanism by which we warm up at critical moments. Therefore, older people can get too cold and get sick even at freezing temperatures.

I choose a sport!

Fortunately, not all knowledge of the cold comes from torture. Much has been learned through years of observation of athletes and the military. It turned out that skiers get a large number of frostbite in the event that the race began at minus temperature and ended at positive temperature. This fact is also confirmed by military doctors: marching throws in melted snow incapacitate part of the personnel precisely because of frostbite on the toes. The thing is the so-called phase transition - when the snow melts, it takes a lot of heat, and the water, which is abundant in such weather, penetrates even through the most durable shoes, accelerating heat removal by 14 times. Therefore, you should not allow young children to drive ice in the first puddles in early spring, frostbite in children is treated poorly, Mr. Yoshimura checked.

Meat, oil and water are our winter friends

Thanks to all the same skiers, it was possible to study how certain products and liquids affect the tolerance of frost. Athletes do not drink coffee and tea in the winter before start. Caffeine, the main active ingredient in these drinks, increases body temperature for 20-40 minutes, and then lowers it. It turns out that the athlete who has not yet stopped suddenly begins to warm up and sweat, and then, when it is necessary to turn on the warming mechanisms, suddenly, on the contrary, it increases heat transfer.

A glass of ordinary hot water works differently. Its vascular stimulating effect begins after two to three hours, when the reserves of one's own thermoregulation decrease.Therefore, before a winter walk, it is wiser to drink a glass of sweetened hot water, rather than tea or coffee.

Food rich in proteins and fats warms for a long time and well, raw fruits and vegetables, on the contrary, will make you tremble at + 15 ° С. What a grimace of fate! It is vegetarians, fighters for the life of animals, in winter, a warm fur coat made of natural fur is especially necessary.

“Yesterday cats were choked, choked, choked, choked ...”

And, finally, putting on warm mittens, saving yourself from a heart attack, say thank you to millions of medical rats, hundreds of Pavlov’s dogs, Professor Preobrazhensky’s ball and Professor Pigarev’s nameless cats (in fairness, Ivan Pigarev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, does not strangle cats, he prevents them from falling asleep - kote from a lack of sleep go bald, get sick and, as usual in biological laboratories, die).

It was neurophysiologists who experimentally found out: the skin and muscles of the hands of the hands are innervated from the same area of ​​the spinal cord as the heart. And as soon as the capillaries in the arms taper off from the cold, they begin to taper in the heart in exactly the same way. If the heart muscle has arteries clogged with cholesterol already, then a complete closure of the vessel lumen can occur, which is actually called coronary heart disease, and a heart attack is its sad ending.

Do not be afraid!

It is this phrase, as theologians thought, is most often found in the Gospel. Man is an amazing creature! The Eskimos live, but do not survive, in the Far North, the Mongols are quite happy in the cold Gobi desert, and the Yakuts - at the cold pole in Oymyakon. The main thing is not to be lazy, to study the possibilities of the body, and not to neglect such trite, at first glance, information from textbooks.

If it says: “Wear a hat at sub-zero temperatures, otherwise frostbite your hair follicles and catch a cold on the facial nerve,” listen — this sadness must have overtaken a sufferer voluntarily or forcibly, and his bald head with a slanted face adorns more than one medical reference book. It’s better to learn from someone else’s experience, especially since the price of this experience is probably someone’s life.