July -- Five Healthy Tips
When July arrives, we're solidly into summer - the month brings sun, socializing, and, sometimes, stress. Here are five simple things you can do this month for your health. Check in every month here at Doc Gurley, and, by the end of the year, you'll have a tidy checklist of simple reminders to help keep your body's engine tuned and humming.
1) POP QUIZ: Question - What environmental event kills the most people? Is it earthquakes? Tornadoes? Hurricanes? Tsunamis? The answer may come as a surprise - it's heat. The European heat deaths of 2003 were a wake-up call for countries and individuals to be vigilant about the health effects of heat waves during the summer. How bad was it in 2003? - "in the first 20 days of August, heat had killed more than 14,800 people. During the peak of the heat, fatality rates topped 2,000 in a day." In total, over 52,000 Europeans died from heat in that summer. Clinically, humans are remarkably vulnerable at the upper ranges of our temperature tolerance. Our bodies live around 98.6 degrees.
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