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Don’t stand in the sun for too long!

Friday, August 15, 2008

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The heat in our body is generated by the basal metabolic activity and lost by evaporation (through sweating), conduction, convection (through dilatation of blood vessels) and radiation. The center for controlling our body temperatures is in an area called hypothalamus in the brain. Our core temperature is maintained at 37 degree centigrade with a [...]

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