Skip to footer

10 pieces of wisdom from 'Because I Said So'

Here are 10 of "mom myths "from Jennings' new book in which he questions family wisdom.

5. You lose your body heat through your head

Melanie Stetson Freeman

  • By Molly Driscoll Staff Writer

Many parents have admonished their child to put on a hat in cold temperatures because they claim that 50 percent of a person's body heat is lost through the head. If everything else was covered and a head was bare, then body heat would escape through that, but Jennings says that this would be the case for any body part that was left uncovered in the cold.

5 of 10
You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.