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Yeah, solid indoor heating becomes a selling point for a city in a first world country
For example, Porto's January low (10C) is as high as as Calgary's July low. So I guess Portugal is fine without a lot of heating. Don't you think? If heating is so indispensable for Portugal, then Calgary needs heating all year round.
Edmonton's July low is 12°
Anyway, just a couple of days ago we had -3° here in my beach town. Houses are made for the summer, there is no central heating. I felt so cold and I know that a lot of people wear their winter jackets indoors.
I never had that situation in Germany, even when it was -25°.
Hey, I didn't make that up. I stumbled upon it repeatedly when investigating my own vitamin D situation recently.
It wasn't a slag and I didn't say you were making it up. But I honestly have never heard this before.
My next-door neighbours for the past 10-15 years are West African (both parents born there, kids born here) and it's never been mentioned in all the times we've had drinks together.
Edmonton's July low is 12°
Anyway, just a couple of days ago we had -3° here in my beach town. Houses are made for the summer, there is no central heating. I felt so cold and I know that a lot of people wear their winter jackets indoors.
I never had that situation in Germany, even when it was -25°.
well, it is the middle of Dec, what do you expect.
Also think about this: Porto for example is at the same latitude as Boston or Chicago, but doesn't have any of those bitingly cold -15C days or snowstorms of 1 meter.
I think all groups of people have areas of health concerns that are specific to their gender or race but I don't think I have ever seen it mentioned so arbitrarily as something that affects where a person lives. I also have a vitamin D insufficiency in spite of being outdoors a lot and I am as white as snow. Of course my going theory this winter is that my parents kidnapped me from a tropical island.
Edmonton's July low is 12°
Anyway, just a couple of days ago we had -3° here in my beach town. Houses are made for the summer, there is no central heating. I felt so cold and I know that a lot of people wear their winter jackets indoors.
I never had that situation in Germany, even when it was -25°.
I was never warm in Germany, not even in the summer.
We'll avoid the fact that the comment in general is racist as f, and believe that it's a Portuguese to English translation issue, and point out that black people need no more or less sunshine than any person of any other color.
It's like saying Portuguese people need more salted fish and aged wine because they're not as bright as Spanish people. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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Originally Posted by Neuling
It's because dark skin blocks a lot more UV light, which the skin needs for making Vitamin D, without which one can get seriously ill.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
It wasn't a slag and I didn't say you were making it up. But I honestly have never heard this before.
My next-door neighbours for the past 10-15 years are West African (both parents born there, kids born here) and it's never been mentioned in all the times we've had drinks together.
It's not racist, Neuling is right. Vitamin D deficiency is a concern for all people in the northern hemisphere regardless of race but people with darker skin are at a higher risk for vitamin D deficiency because the melanin block more UV rays. However in today society where foods are fortified with vitamin D and vitamin D supplementation widely available, darker skin individuals (even though not meeting the optimal levels of vitamin D) are not getting seriously ill like people did say 100 years ago. For example Rickets was common among African-American until milk was fortified with milk in the mid 20th century.
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