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Weather & Health

With another season of winter cold at hand, millions of Americans are dreaming again about going South for the winter — "for their health.* This brings up once again a question that has long puzzled physicians — What effect does climate actually have on health? Should the physician advise a pateint to try a change of climate for his health? There is no pat answer. Sometimes a change of climate helps.Sometimes it doesn't. Researchers say that tbe human body functions best at a temperature of about 66 degrees. They also know that babies and older people have more difficulty in adjusting to drastic changes in teipperature. Diabetes appears to be more controllable in the tropics. Stress diseases - ulcers, heart disease^ hardening of the arteries - are le£s frequent in the South. Do sufferers from hay fever ’and other allergic ailments fait better in an arid, warm climate? Sometimes. Other's find the native plants in the southwest just as troublesome as those in the North. 5

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