http://blog.douglas.qc.ca/therochfordfiles/2009/08/26/whether-the-weather/ Personal Musings on Brain and Behaviour Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.douglas.qc.ca/therochfordfiles/2009/08/26/whether-the-weather/#comment-33 Dennis Jacques, R.N. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:37:16 +0000 http://www.blog.douglas.qc.ca/therochfordfiles/?p=111#comment-33 Well reasoned! Can we not, however, argue successfully that the weather itself is a stressor? If hunger and the acts of digestion and sexual activity stress the body, is it not reasonable to infer that having to stand in 2 inches of slush, cleaning salt residue from the windshield of one's automobile, in 35 F air, while near ice water falls upon us from the heavens may also stress the body? If this is the case, then it might reasonably be that the weather ITSELF causes disease. Well reasoned! Can we not, however, argue successfully that the weather itself is a stressor? If hunger and the acts of digestion and sexual activity stress the body, is it not reasonable to infer that having to stand in 2 inches of slush, cleaning salt residue from the windshield of one’s automobile, in 35 F air, while near ice water falls upon us from the heavens may also stress the body? If this is the case, then it might reasonably be that the weather ITSELF causes disease.

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