All Europeans are frightened to death of drafts. Here the myth of drafts is debunked in the Huffington Post:<\/p>\n
Get cold, and you\u2019ll catch a cold
\nIt must be true because your mother always said so. Right?<\/p>\n
The Truth:<\/strong> Mom was wrong. \u201cChilling doesn\u2019t hurt your immunity, unless you\u2019re so cold that your body defenses are destroyed — and that only occurs during hypothermia,\u201d Vreeman says. \u201cAnd you can\u2019t get a cold unless you\u2019re exposed to a virus that causes a cold.\u201d<\/p>\n The reason people get more colds in the winter isn\u2019t because of the temperature, but it may be a result of being cooped up in closed spaces and exposed to the spray of cold viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All Europeans are frightened to death of drafts. Here the myth of drafts is debunked in the Huffington Post: Get cold, and you\u2019ll catch a cold It must be true because your mother always said so. Right? The Truth: Mom was wrong. \u201cChilling doesn\u2019t hurt your immunity, unless you\u2019re so cold that your body defenses are destroyed — and that only occurs during hypothermia,\u201d Vreeman says. \u201cAnd you can\u2019t get a cold unless you\u2019re exposed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2Ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10679,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions\/10679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}