Fw: Way-out, Saturday party-time, plist-type open-ended question....grounded in Puritanism maybe?

[Matthew Cissell]

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From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Way-out, Saturday party-time, plist-type open-ended question....grounded in Puritanism maybe?

One more thing. Seems to be some confusion on the issue of the quantity of bacteria on/in the average human body. Please see Scientific American June 2012 about this subject. There the reported ratio is that bacteria outnumber human cells by 10 - 1. Looks like a hell of a number but then compare your bacteria size and cell size and you will see why that average total weight of bacteria for an adult could be around 2k (4.5 lbs).

Wash with normal soap (none of that hyped-up  stuff), it does a fine job of fighting bacteria.

mc


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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: Way-out, Saturday party-time, plist-type open-ended question....grounded in Puritanism maybe?

first of all...please post plaintext...my reply would've gone out in
the evil html-cruft mode of your post, but I manually changed it back
to plaintext...

anyway, a friend of ours from church perhaps encountered this with her
daughter, she (the mother) is a neat freak and always using those
sterile wipes and so forth, (those things sort of give me the creeps
although I can handle it...) anyway the daughter came down with this
weird immune-based failure to thrive -- but eventually recovered...not
sure if the therapy involved getting down and dirty or not

however, didn't I read somewhere how the human body's mass is like 70%
germs anyway?