European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                For humans odor free is anything but natural by Mike Woods the Toledo Blade he Mode in a television a a commercial for deodorant soap Slinks out of the Shower and towels off All squeaky Dean As a voice marvels Quot so fresh and naturally Dean Quot if there s one thing a human body in its natural state could be called it certainly is not fresh and Dean. For All but the last few moments of Homo Sapiens years on Earth Man the Wise has been Man the Stinker. Our obsession with cleanliness a fostered by advertising for soaps detergents deodorants and cosmetics a is barely a Century old. Our tendency to equate an odor free body with a Quot natural Quot body is even newer and represents a biological fallacy with few parallels. It s the old Quot Noble Savage Quot myth rising again. This is the notion that humans in their natural state Are pure of body and mind corruption being a byproduct of civilization. Few of us can imagine what a human body smells Tike in its truly natural state unwashed a deodorized a wiped and alive with fleas and lice. Most americans rarely go More than a Day or two without bathing and even then underarm deodorants and clothing mask Man s and woman s natural scent. Inhabitants of cities with Street people get an inkling when encountering an unusually unkempt person the stench can be unbelievably offensive it makes the nose Burn eyes water and May engage the gag reflex the great British anthropologist Louis Leakey theorized that Homo Sapiens Quot Man the Wise Quot survived As a species not because of Wisdom but stench. Early humans were puny slow and without claws or Sharp Teeth to defend against predators. Leakey argued predators left Early humans natural smell May have protected them from larger predators. Not humans alone because people smelled so bad. Man the Wise perhaps it should be Man the Stinker. Bathing was rare in the United states until the late 1800s. In 1846, for instance health reformer William Alcott noted that Many americans regarded themselves Quot models of neatness and cleanliness Quot because they bathed once a year. A a a a a a a. T a even in its current scrubbed an sanitized incarnation the human body is not clean from a microbial standpoint. Call it life on Man or your own personal zoo each of us harbours a microbial zoo on our skin a virtual United nations of microbes. In its healthy natural state skin teems with trillions of bacteria viruses protozoa and fungi. Some regions of the skin Harbor millions of bacteria per Square Inch. The human skin even has been likened to an ecosystem that has its own distinctive populations that vary a with climatic conditions. A. One microbiologist a poet at heart. Described microbes thriving in Quot the desert of the forearm the coot Woods of the Scalp and the tropical i Forest of the . Life on Man is most abundant in the tropics -4 the warm hairy humid terrain of the armpits and Groin. Microbes also mayor areas near body. Openings where there Are mucus secretions. These include the Mouth eyes nose anus Vagina and Penis. Microbes thriving on dead skin sweat Oil and other body secretions Are the source of the human body s odor. Shower scrub put on freshly laundered clothing smell and feel As Dean As the deodorant soap Model you can vanquish some microbes Tern  return from deep within the skin s Oil glands and other  you abhor every thug artificial and synthetic yearn for the Quot natural Quot life then understand what the natural life for humans actually was like. We really would be living the natural life and dying in our 20s or 30s, were it not for All the artificiality of Medicine science and Lech not orgy. Origins by Keay Davidson san Francisco examiner in a discovery that further confuses the already murky quest for human origins scientists in March said that humanity s ancestor might have Quot left Home Quot re Africa a much earlier than previously thought. The find Quot Means we have to look for new reasons Why Homo rectus left Africa Quot said University of California at Berkeley researcher c c. Swisher Iii during a meeting of the american association for the advancement of science in san Francisco. Until now most researchers have agreed that some 2 million years ago in the wilds of Africa there arose a sem human creature called Homo _ rectus that stood erect and fashioned tools such As Stone hand axes. Then around 1 million years ago Homo rectus got a hankering for travel and hit the Road so to speak. Thousands migrated around the Globe East and West and became the ancestors of modern humanity technically known As Homo Sapiens. However researchers from Berkeley san Francisco and Indonesia said they had found evidence of Homo rectus living in Indonesia 1.8 million years ago. That s 800,000 years earlier than they were presumed to have left Africa. The discovery Quot throws open the question of when was the migration of hominid predecessors out of Africa Quot said . Curtis of the Institute of human origins in Berkeley. The be w Date is extreme by re i a b a Curtis was quoted As saying in an article on the discovery in science Magazine the association s journal. If the f ending is Correct then it Means Quot the whole pattern of human evolution is much More complicated than a simplistic linear explanation a the Magazine quoted Bernard Wood a Pale anthropologist from the University of Liverpool England As saying. Science shorts search for planets the discovery of the first planets known to a. Circle a Distant Star is whetting astronomers. Appetites for More spurring the search for Earth like planets orbiting Ordinary unlike stars. ,. A a a. A Quot it probably Means there Are Many More planets yet to find a said astronomer Alexander wolszc2an, at Penn state University. It was Wolszczak who confirmed the planets. Existence in the Virgo Constellation 1,500 Light years from Earth. \. Astronomer Steven Maran said Wisz Czarik a discovery announced last month will Spur the search for More planets. Quot More and More astronomers Are going to be looking for planets especially with the new technologies we re using on telescopes these  because planets Emit no Light of their own a the Only Way to detect them is to watch for their influence on a Parent Star. As a planet orbits a Star its gravitational pull will make the Star move slightly and in some systems the. Wobble May be detectable. Treating bad hair imagine if every Day were a bad hair Day. That apparently is the Case for a 39-year-old woman thought to be the first documented victim of Quot acquired Unco Mable  this is not to be confused with congenital Unco Mable hair syndrome which usually appears at the age of 3 to 12 and is outgrown. More than 50 cases of that Type have been documented since the Condit Ion was f first described in 1973. A but doctors at the Cleveland clinic foundation in a letter to the american medical associations archives of dermatology. Outlined what they called the first documented Case in which the Send ration was acquired rather than inherited. The woman developed the condition also. Known As Pill Tri Anguti it Canali cull while being treated Tor hair loss. Although hair grew it a looked awful and was too tangled to comb the condition causes dry coarse Bond or Light Brown half that stands straight out from the head and looks wildly disordered. Primate dietary tips besieged with diet and food related health problems today a humans could learn a. Valuable lesson in nutrition from yesterdays primates. So says Katharine Milton professor at the University of California Berkeley Quot while the dietary pressures of Early primates led to the evolution of modern a humans the human diet today particularly in the West is nutritionally inferior to that of our tree dwelling ancestors 1 she said /. Quot the wild Plant foods eaten by primates including the great apes have much to Teil us about cur own dietary needs. Plant / domestication hybridization food additives and food processing make Many of today a foods quite different from those our bodies require and evolved to  heterosexuals and aids heterosexuals accounted for the largest proportionate increase in . Aids cases Over the past eight years according to a recent re port by the Fede Raice enters f or Dis ease control and prevention. It says Between 1985 and 1993, the number of aids infections through heterosexual transmission Rose from less than 2 percent of All cases to 9 percent. During the same period m a etch male homosexual a1ds transmission n defined from 66 percent to 47 percent. Cases attributed to drug abuse among women and heterosexual men increased from 17 percent to 28 percent. A from wire reports 22 the stars and stripes tuesday May 3, 1994