It is apparently, supposed to be snow this week here in the UK. And good Samaritans that we are, we think it's only right to warn you against supping on a glass of lovely, Yuletide mulled wine (that's if you haven't given up booze for January already).
It turns out, rather than warming your cold body, drinking warm alcohol can actually cause you to be colder. Where as a normal warm drink sends heat to your internal organs from your skin, alcohol actually reverses this process, diverting heat to the skin. And even worse, it reduces the ability to shiver (the body's way of creating heat) as well as making you sweat, making you by this time, absolutely bloody freezing.
A word to the wise: drink your mulled wine where there's central heating.
[via NYTimes]
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Good to know. :)