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I know Yorkshire people and Inuit who have it even colder. I well remember Inuit in a video on tv years ago with the baby climbing about in the nuddy in an igloo! D.
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I know Yorkshire people and Inuit who have it even colder. I well remember Inuit in a video on tv years ago with the baby climbing about in the nuddy in an igloo! D.When I am home alone I turn the thermostat down to 16C as I can't bear it to be warmer than that.
Oh happy days! Remember the early mornings scraping pictures onto the frosted windows before shooting downstairs to get dressed in front of the fire before school.in the winter the inside of our windows freeze .. so it's quite chilly at times,
I lived in a cold damp flat like that for 9 years. i had a small 2 bar electric fire in my bedroom, and in the winter I would lean out of bed to switch it on, and leave it on for about half an hour to knock a bit of the chill off before I got out of bed.. in the winter the inside of our windows freeze
Another one here who cannot sleep with the heating on. On the rare occasions we accidentally leave it on overnight, I wake up feeling like I have had a brain transplant. And not in a good way.Am I reading correctly that some of you keep the heating on overnight?
We are retired so in the house a lot during the day.
Other than very cold days it is only on for 1 or 2 hours in the morning, back on again at 5pm until 10pm.
Off all night from 10pm. Bedroom window open a touch in winter, wider in summer.
Thermo set at 18. Up to 20 on very cold days but Mr. Blue keeps turning it down again.
You have windows? Luxury! There are fifteen of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road and all we have eat is a handful of cold gravel!as some one without any form of centre heating .. and only a small coal fire in the living room I will be interested in how cold the room needs to be to help T2 .. in the winter the inside of our windows freeze .. so it's quite chilly at times, and my bs numbers were no different than in the summer.. but it is a cold cottage even in the height of summer
Or conversly. you would appear to have one b***y big window, or is that just an avatar I am looking at?You have windows? Luxury! There are fifteen of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road and all we have eat is a handful of cold gravel!
Oh happy days! Remember the early mornings scraping pictures onto the frosted windows before shooting downstairs to get dressed in front of the fire before school.
Obvious connection to make especially in 1947, but it is equally obvious that said 'coalscuttle' helmet shape would be most illsuited to that task. Mechanically the helmet has a domed top, so would wobble the weeble all over the shop.Getting off the subject but I thought it was because of the passing resemblence to the German army helmet in ww2? (East Midlands slang term just after war)
Too true!Obvious connection to make especialy in 1947, but it ia eqully obvious that said 'coalscuttle' helmet shape would be most illsuited to that task. Mechanically the helmet has a domed top, so would wobble the weeble all over the shop.
Certainly straying into No Man's Land wrt topic of this thread, but is nonetheless diabetes related since the subject of nocturnal micturation affects most of us.
It was cold in the house in those days with floral ice patterns on the windows in the morning, some reckoned their Jerry's froze in 1947!
We called them gazunders or po's. Technically I assume you are referring to chamber pots, since to me a jerry is a large container for carrying drinking water or petrol.
Last year I got soaked through and had to stay in the same clothes in the pouring rain and cold for over 6 hours. Dr google said I had gone past mild hypothermia into moderate hypothermia. I lost 5 pounds almost instantly and put it down to the brown fat cells working. I also had immense cravings for liquorice and salt (possibly my adrenal glands needing help?) I didn't find it helped my insulin resistance after I had recovered though. I have since regained the weight.This study actually makes sense to me. As a T2D I suffer Insulin Resistance, and there are recent studies that suggest that reducing the adipose fat stored round our vital organs has a beneficial effect by reducing IR for T2D. As it happens, the purpose of this fat around the vitals is to protect them, so e,g, when it gets cold, this fat from the brown cells provides energy for heating for our core bits. And if the temp goes too low, then it prompts us to shiver to produce localised heat. All this warming and shivering uses up this visceral fat, and so indirectly would help to reduce IR. That's my theory anyway,
And not an exercise bike in sight.
PS my radiators have thermostatic valves fitted, so I only have a central thermostat to protect the boiler So meanypuss here turns the heating off asap since it is costing me £240 a month to run.
Interesting that you did not notice any improvement in your IR, I have to ask the question, by what means you use to guage your IR level? I have not seen any home remedy means of measuring this without associated lab checks. In my case, my pancreas is still producing my own insulin, so as my IR level improves, then my body will probably react by reducing the amount of insulin being released, but my bgl may not be affected by this in the short term. I have no means of measuring my insulin levels. All I can measure (rather badly) is my bgl glucose content, and this is only 'reliable' when averaged over a long period.Last year I got soaked through and had to stay in the same clothes in the pouring rain and cold for over 6 hours. Dr google said I had gone past mild hypothermia into moderate hypothermia. I lost 5 pounds almost instantly and put it down to the brown fat cells working. I also had immense cravings for liquorice and salt (possibly my adrenal glands needing help?) I didn't find it helped my insulin resistance after I had recovered though. I have since regained the weight.
Interesting that you did not notice any improvement in your IR, I have to ask the question, by what means you use to guage your IR level? I have not seen any home remedy means of measuring this without associated lab checks. In my case, my pancreas is still producing my own insulin, so as my IR level improves, then my body will probably react by reducing the amount of insulin being released, but my bgl may not be affected by this in the short term. I have no means of measuring my insulin levels. All I can measure (rather badly) is my bgl glucose content, and this is only 'reliable' when averaged over a long period.
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