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The breeze of a fan feels like welcome relief. Fans don’t cool the air. They move it around, with the aim of creating a breeze to increase the efficiency of the body’s normal methods of keeping cool via convection of heat from the skin and evaporation of sweat from the skin. Fans are used widely. One case report even gives an example of three patients with heatstroke who were cooled down using the downdraft from a light helicopter. The amateur version of this is the polar bear contests held every year where grizzled old men tempt death by heart failure by leaping into the freezing water in their skivvies. However, for real cold weather sports enthusiasts, there is an upgraded version. All you need is insulated diving equipment and a desire to see sea life under the ice. Speed Flying AKA Blade Running View in gallery via infinitelegroom.com

When you want a change of pace and are seeking a weird new way to work out those winter kinks, here’s an array of 17 strange sports that you do in the cold. Most require limited equipment and almost no training, just like all the best things in life.During heatwaves, everyone has plenty of tips on how to keep cool. But which tips and facts stand up to scientific scrutiny on the hottest days of the year? We look at the evidence for whether you should: Here’s another sledding offshoot and one of the more famous extreme cold weather sports that was actually taken out of the Olympics due to its danger to competitors. You go diving headfirst down a hill using nothing but a tiny sled that resembles a skeleton (hence the name) to do it. You can use any sled you want, but for the love of all that is holy, please put on a helmet and a mouthguard. If only to reduce cleanup later on. Ski Biking View in gallery via lenzsport.wordpress.com If it is just one beer, it might not hurt you. In various studies, researchers have made people exercise until they’re hot and then compared their recovery when they drank beer with or without alcohol. In one 1985 study of people exercising in a warm, humid environment, as you might expect, the “peak urine output” occurred after the beer which is not good. It shows the body is losing rather than retaining liquid. But compared with alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer the difference was surprising small. Please, be careful engaging in these activities, as they can all be mortally hazardous. Ski Ballet View in gallery via bustle.com

But that doesn’t mean that only the elderly are at risk in a heatwave. Young babies and people with chronic health conditions are more likely to have issues aswell. So is anyone with mobility issues, simply because it’s harder to walk to the window to open it or to fetch drinks to replace the liquids lost through sweating. If it’s hot during the day and the night, it can be hard for the body to cool down at all. The European heatwave of 2003 is estimated to have killed at least 30,000 people; some figures put the total as high as 70,000. Of the 15,000 who died in France, 1,321 were under the age of 64.What we do know is that fans aren’t always a foolproof solution. In a 1999 heatwave in Cincinnati, 17 people died – and 10 had fans which were switched on when the people were found dead. Of course, what we don’t know is if they would have died sooner without the fans, or if the reason these people had bought fans was that they lived in the hottest buildings. The theory behind choosing a hot drink is that it temporarily heats you from within. This causes you to sweat more, which cools you down. The human body can produce up to two litres of sweat per hour, which is an effective way of reducing your core body temperature. In the 1958 film Ice Cold in Alex, Sir John Mills’ character looks forward to escaping the desert and drinking an ice-cold beer. When he eventually arrives, he sits at the bar and is served a glass of lager. Downing it, he famously says: “Worth waiting for.”