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Today I was talking with some classmates during the break and we had a discussion on sleeping with the heating on.
One girl mentioned that she was cold the night before so she turned the heating on and went back to sleep. On which I replied 'I always sleep with the heating on because I don't like to sleep in a cool room'. A different girl was baffled by what I had just said and replied: 'But that
Using the Celsius scale is unhealthy in general. 
Silence silly American backwards Yank Zarf!
Tell your friends they're stupid and to produce facts before saying stupid stuff!
Actually Zarf is correct, Kelvin would be a lot more appropriate.
Personally I always sleep with the window open even during the winter. I rarely get too cold but I often get too hot. Obviously whether you have the window open or heating on etc. is dependent on your location. I have heard (but don't quite believe) that not everybody lives in the tropical latitudes around Huddersfield
I guess what your friends are pointing to is that turning up the heat isn't that good for the air in the room;
when people who sleep with their window open will always have fresh air to breath during the night you will only have air that is being warmed up.
> [TI] Sitting Duck wrote:
> Actually Zarf is correct, Kelvin would be a lot more appropriate.
Exactly! Silly people assuming there's only two temperature scales. 
Just an old wives tale. Your body doesn't care if your room is 17 or 22 degrees. Barring significant health problems it'll adapt easily to either.
But seriously, 17 degrees will save a few bucks on the heating bill.
There is a set of things I ran into in the army.
1) A fan turned on you could make you sick
2) Stink does not move on its own
3) More heat = more pathogens can grow and more bugs
This was enforced upon us from day 1
> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> > [TI] Sitting Duck wrote:
> Actually Zarf is correct, Kelvin would be a lot more appropriate.
Exactly! Silly people assuming there's only two temperature scales. <
Silly people assuming I assumed they meant Farenheit.
I assume.
> Einstein wrote:
> There is a set of things I ran into in the army.
1) A fan turned on you could make you sick
2) Stink does not move on its own
3) More heat = more pathogens can grow and more bugs
This was enforced upon us from day 1
#1 Yes, yes it can.
#2 Diffusion
#3 True, but that's far more relevant in a military environment than it is in the civilian world. It wasn't that long ago that armies were losing more troops to disease than to the enemy, and they still have significant issues with that because of the nature of what they're doing. Lots of vectors, lots of missing immunities, lots of bodies with weakened immune systems. None of these are really applicable to the OP.
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Zarf, stop logging onto the forum but not on into your account to send us cash....
yeah it depends on the type of heat source I think
If you're using a propane BBQ to heat up your bedroom, yeah it's probably not going to be too good for your health.
(And yes, people actually do that... and they often end up in the hospital with CO poisoning)
Basically the body temperature has to remain at a constant temperature. When our body's have a fever, it's to burn off/kill off whatever germ is attacking our immune system. When our body's are abnormally cool, our little white blood cells kinda don't move around the body as much to take care of disease or germs, allowing a cold to break through our natural heated body defenses. Reason why so many people come down with the flu, is usually people that may eat healthy, but attempt to save money by puting on more blankets, instead of turning up the heat.
I prefer 60-65f in my room. And I feel very comfortable with that during winter time.
THe only time i get cold, achy, and pain, is when i'm at work in a meat locker that can get as low as 40f. And after work I go home feeling like crap.
The fact is the temperature is not so vital. Usually central heating dries out the air and therefore the skin. It also reduces moisture available in the respiratory system, so can aggravate and allow germs to settle.
Where I live I usually have to go with AC at night but as soon as it is cool enough to sleep w/o AC I do so.
"Moisturize me. Moisturize me." ~ Casandra...Doctor Who.
For anyone that don't get it...i'm truelly sorry.
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