Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 10 Aug 15

researchers have come up with a possible answer to the age-old question - why women always think the air conditioning is too cold. According to a paper published in the Nature journal titled “Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand,” women are comfortable at a temperature of between 24° and 25° - about 2.5° warmer than that preferred by men. Dutch scientists Boris Kingma and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt said the implications of the finding could be quite serious because indoor climate regulations are based on an “empirical thermal comfort model that was developed in the 1960s” which includes the male metabolic rate as one of the standard variables. “This may cause buildings to be intrinsically non-energy-efficient in providing comfort to females,” they said. The underwire from a bra looks to have saved the life of a woman who was hit by stray ammunition when she was cycling near a group hunting wild boar in northern Germany last week. The 41-year-old female was riding beside a field of grain when she suddenly felt pain, with a police spokesman saying “she was hit by an object in the breast area.” She suffered only bruising, with a bullet fragment found on the bra’s metal wire.

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