Article: Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find.
"One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between hands on the same individual," said University of Colorado biochemistry assistant professor Rob Knight, a co-author of the paper.
"The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria we found on the hands of women," added lead researcher Noah Fierer, an assistant professor in Colorado's department of ecology and evolutionary biology.
The researchers aren't sure why women harbored a greater variety of bacteria than men, but Fierer suggested it may have to so with the acidity of the skin. Knight said men generally have more acidic skin than women.
Other possibilities are differences in sweat and oil gland production between men and women, the frequency of moisturizer or cosmetics applications, skin thickness or hormone production, he said.
Women also may have more bacteria living under the surface of the skin where they are not accessible to washing, Knight added.
Asked if guys should worry about holding hands with girls, Knight said: "I guess it depends on which girl."
He stressed that "the vast majority of the bacteria we have on our body are either harmless or beneficial ... the pathogens are a small minority."
I thought it should be the other way round, Man should have more bacteria considering them holding their dick when urinating!!! and i don't even know whether they wash their hands properly or not...
i kew this long time already, and men with wife and gf will also know that women are naturally more dirtier, especially "down there" then men.
if u have live with a woman with low personal hygiene, u will realise by now what i am talking about.
There are women who complain men are smelly but that is due to hormones. the smell in men has a purpose...
so farnie
u think men's hands oni got touch their dick oni isit?
they dun touch anything else?
and i bet if u bother to observe wat women put on themselves, where they do, wat they do, u will know..
Originally posted by FireIce:so farnie
u think men's hands oni got touch their dick oni isit?
they dun touch anything else?
and i bet if u bother to observe wat women put on themselves, where they do, wat they do, u will know..
issit?....but u know men's dick has smell. the smell is to attract women, same for their body smell.. in fact women love it...
but women has smell is different altogether...
This kind of comments is uncalled for.
Originally posted by SPLIT SECOND:issit?....but u know men's dick has smell. the smell is to attract women, same for their body smell.. in fact women love it...
but women has smell is different altogether...
Err u sure???
who is toking about smell here?
so by ur logic, to attract woman, u gotta leave it hanging outside ur pants?
Originally posted by SPLIT SECOND:issit?....but u know men's dick has smell. the smell is to attract women, same for their body smell.. in fact women love it...
but women has smell is different altogether...
u watch too much porn is it?
Originally posted by FireIce:who is toking about smell here?
so by ur logic, to attract woman, u gotta leave it hanging outside ur pants?
Make sense, IF the former talking about smell is correct.
Originally posted by SPLIT SECOND:issit?....but u know men's dick has smell. the smell is to attract women, same for their body smell.. in fact women love it...
but women has smell is different altogether...
for ur sake, tat smell is called Body Odour!!
then u dun bath n tell us the outcome. whether u attract more women or flies..
i know women enjoy it...
Split Second is right. Men sweat produces pheromones which attract women. Its well known and has been published in many newspapers before. However, the "body odour" smell is caused by bacteria that forms on old sweaty clothes but its not emitted from the skin. Gosh, some people just don't know the difference.
Originally posted by SPLIT SECOND:i kew this long time already, and men with wife and gf will also know that women are naturally more dirtier, especially "down there" then men.
if u have live with a woman with low personal hygiene, u will realise by now what i am talking about.
There are women who complain men are smelly but that is due to hormones. the smell in men has a purpose...
then i guess i've never lived with a woman with poor hygiene then