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Also life expectancies are extremely high in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland in spite of our extreme daylight cycles.
red line represents the arctic circle.
the vast majority of Scandinavia's population lives well south of 65°N. so its not really fair to say. and i never said it made a large difference anyway, especially for people living south of 65°N. only that it makes a difference, likely a small difference.
technically the same is true for Iceland but its nearly 65°N so Iceland in particular is interesting to point out. as i'm sure you know there are so many reasons for what determines a country's life expectancy so i don't think this fact can hold any significance unless there was somehow another country that was identical in every way to Iceland except it was located much closer to the equator and had the same or lower life expectancy.
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I think the absence of extreme heat makes it a healthier environment than Florida as long as the indoor heating works. Outdoors the body has to battle heat stroke at least 50 % of days a year in southern FL.
lol no reason to get defensive. i am well aware of the health effects for someone with northern european ancestry living in Florida.
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Our bodies aren't "designed" for anything. But they happen to be adaptable to almost everything.
sure they are, look at your ancestry. your body is likely to perform better in a region that your ancestors spent generations living in.
not sure why i even have to point out something as obvious as skin pigmentation.
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the vast majority of Scandinavia's population lives well south of 65°N. so its not really fair to say. and i never said it made a large difference anyway, especially for people living south of 65°N.
technically the same is true for Iceland but its nearly 65°N so Iceland in particular is fair to say.
lol no reason to get defensive. i am well aware of the health effects for someone with northern european ancestry living in Florida.
sure they are, look at your ancestry. your body is likely to perform better in a region that your ancestors spent generations living in.
not sure why i even have to point out something as obvious as skin pigmentation.
The red line doesn't represent anything.
Look at my ancestry? That doesn't mean that my body was DESIGNED by anything. For the human body to be designed for something means that there would be a designer, for example a god, which is obviously impossible.
What skin colour has to do with all this I don't understand.
Is Tromsö a better climate in your mind than any ConUS climate Alex?
Nope, it's too moderate lol. My fav climate (in the lower 48) is probably Grand Forks, ND. I like the snowbelt regions as well but the temperatures in winter are a bit too close to freezing for my liking....
Look at my ancestry? That doesn't mean that my body was DESIGNED by anything. For the human body to be designed for something means that there would be a designer, for example a god, which is obviously impossible.
What skin colour has to do with all this I don't understand.
"design" is up to interpretation. i was referring to evolution. believing in god is not required for understanding my point.
darker skin pigmentation is more resilient to solar radiation. it has also been proven that some groups with darker skin need more vitamin D (from the sun). because their bodies have the expectation that they will receive a certain amount of solar radiation.
Those effects you see in wintertime especially without snow cover. As it is, the greatest difficulty in that regard is probably found in the exterior islands south-west of where Tromsö is given that those locations lack daily means below freezing all winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8st#Climate) Also life expectancies are extremely high in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland in spite of our extreme daylight cycles.
I think the absence of extreme heat makes it a healthier environment than Florida as long as the indoor heating works. Outdoors the body has to battle heat stroke at least 50 % of days a year in southern FL.
The big problem with Florida isn't even the heat or the sun strength, it's the humidity. Southern Florida is like a Turkish sauna year round. All that humidity really takes a toll on your body
The big problem with Florida isn't even the heat or the sun strength, it's the humidity. Southern Florida is like a Turkish sauna year round. All that humidity really takes a toll on your body
No it's not.
You act like we have our July/August weather year round. A 75 F average high is hardly "hot and humid" certainly warm though.
Not to mention further north in FL has average highs in the 60s in winter with lows in the upper 30s or low 40s. Hardly a "Turkish Sauna".
You're right in the sense that it can be warm and humid in winter here.
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