There are many false beliefs about nutrition that are accepted as true by most people. Assertions are without foundation and may even interfere with proper nutrition. How much you know about nutrition?
1. The alcohol removes the cold
The Saint Bernard dog who comes swift with his barrel of rum to assist the skier is an image that all we keep in our memory. It should give joy to see your face approach with good-natured but today we know that it is best not to test the alcohol that carries his keg.
Alcohol is a vasodilator. It makes the skin capillaries dilate so that more blood reaches them. This produces a momentary sensation of heat to the cold comfort but in reality it is producing a heat loss, since the blood to be so close to the body surface cools faster.
This causes a decrease in body temperature that can cause death by freezing. Not infrequently, there have been cases of people drunk bastards who have died from cold.
