Guess what the media is now blaming obesity on...
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Cold is more adverse to exercising outdoors than heat. Heat isn't an issue for 100% of the year in most of the US, and like 80-90% in the southern parts of the US (where it only really comes into play in the middle of the day in the summer months).
Children are fat because of stuffing their fat faces, and parents using stuffing their fat faces to shut them up.
Sort of. Heat is a problem if you can't get to shade, don't have enough water, or can't get to air conditioning.
Cold's biggest problem is snow and running though cold air. That shit hurts. Oh, and getting fucked up by ice.
There are plenty of places where it never gets cold enough to be a concern yet heatstroke is a real issue.
Except no it's not, because you have to be an idiot to get heatstroke by purposely exerting yourself in conditions where heat stroke is likely.
You can very easily avoid heat stroke by not engaging in physical labor in the hottest hours of the day & drinking enough water, hence why the "siesta" exists.
Now that we have shit like air conditioning, the idea that heat is this super deadly thing is just laughable.
By contrast, cold is very quickly lethal to anyone who lacks serious shelter and heating, which is why cold kills 20x more people than heat