Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

In a message dated 2000/06/16 02:54:11 AM, Romilly wrote:

>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.
    Ya bet diet has something to do with it; as the ol' sayin' goes "You are
what ya eat." Eat stinky foods, ya stink. ;)  Eatin' too much red meat is a
major culprit in stinking. Redmeat takes a long time to digest. Red meat rots
in the gut while digesting (so I am told). Too much redmeat retained in the
body is poison.

>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.
>
    HEHE!

>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.
    Perhaps both? :D

>Maybe bathing with cold (room temp.) water keeps the pores more tightly
closed?

    Twice a day closing the pores? Not likely for long in the tropics. But it
sure beats the heat to bath twice or more times a day (& prob'ly reduces risk
of tropical skin infections, etc.).

    zHANg