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Why do women always feel colder than men? (timesonline.co.uk)
18 points by jwilliams on Nov 9, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



My wife's a portable furnace and I'm cold-blooded. Incidentally, she also grabs the comforter at night, hooks it under her torso and rolls up in a burrito. I have purchased a second comforter.


I'm going to write an 'informational' article today about keeping cool with 'helpful' and convenient links to products from stores that have in no way anything to do with this article, myself or my company. And of course there will be no sort of financial agreement that benefits me as the author in exchange for sending traffic to these web stores.

/end sarcasm


Anybody who thinks women ALWAYS feel colder than men has obviously not lived with a menopausal woman... Talk about role reversal!


Women have less blood than men (and narrower blood vessels), so they can't keep their extremities warm as effectively.

EDIT: Didn't notice this was an actual link, but that's probably what the article says anyway.


The article says this:

And women really do feel the cold more than men, but this is because they are better at conserving heat than men. Mark Newton, a scientist at W.L. Gore, the company that makes Gore-Tex, and a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, explains: “Women have a more evenly distributed fat layer and can pull all their blood back to their core organs.”


Spoiler alert: boobs.




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