What is alcohol’s role in heat and temperature?
According to extensive studies and research, fats, starches and sugars are found to produce heat when combined with oxygen. The heat being talked about is the energy with which the body needs in order to move.
It has been found out that alcohol does not undergo combustion or is not transformed to become heat inside the body or become energy.
When we talk about temperature, alcohol reduces temperature. Doctors in Europe and America have proved that alcohol has an anti-pyretic effect in people with fevers. According to Liebermeister, one of the most learned contributors to Zeimssen’s Cyclopedia of the Practice of Medicine, 1875: “I long since convinced myself, by direct experiments, that alcohol, even in comparatively large doses, does not elevate the temperature of the body in either well or sick people.”
Therefore alcohol does not produce any kind of heat in the body thus lessens it plus it decreases a person’s power to withstand the cold temperature.
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