Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

> That's an interesting fact, confirmed by personal
> experience (I wonder if
> there's anything scientific to back it up?)--  maybe
> the absence of dairy,
> butter, wheat etc. has something to do with it too.
> My first six weeks in
> Indonesia, with radical change in diet,  I dropped
> 20 lbs, which have never
> returned. Despite much sweating, I didn't smell.
> Oddest (personal
> confession time), I stopped biting my
> fingernails..........???(and haven't
> resumed).  Toward the end of my year, I was in the
> countryside, and noticed
> that the water-buffalo didn't shy away from me,
> either.
> I only recall one Indonesian with BO-- an older
> Ambonese, Christian,
> probably ate a Dutch-ified diet??  To be fair, maybe
> he just didn't bathe
> that often-- at least twice a day was the norm for
> most.  Maybe bathing with
> cold (room temp.) water keeps the pores more tightly
closed?


That's what I heard.  For the first 22 years of my
life in the Philippines, I took a bath twice a day
with cold water.  I rarely had pimples because the
pores are tightly closed, so the dust had a harder
time getting in the pores.  I moved here to Chicago
last year, and as fall and winter came, I started to
get lots of pimples!  I wondered why at first, because
I still got into the habit of taking a bath twice a
day with cold water.  It's not after some months that
it dawned on me that this is precisely why I was
having pimples.  Washing the face in cold water really
closes the pores, but in a cold and dry environment,
it also leaves the skin really dry as to remove it of
its natural protective cover, which is  the oils that
the skin has, so the skin becomes prone to infection.
I started to put moisturizer on my face, and my
pimples vanished! In a humid place, taking a bath with
cold water is perfect since it closes the pores, but
since the air is so humid, there is little chance of
the skin's natural protective oils to be removed.

This goes to show that we really have to adjust to the
place where we are.

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