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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: Why do men have nipples? |
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It's the name of a new book...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Have you ever wondered why your teeth chatter when you're cold, or if you could really catch a disease from sitting on a toilet seat?
New York physician Billy Goldberg, pestered by unusual questions at cocktail parties and other social gatherings over the years, puts the public's mind at ease in his book "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" which hits the book stores on Tuesday.
"It's really remarkable how often you get accosted," said Goldberg, 39. "There are the medical questions from family and friends, and then there are the drunk and outrageous questions where somebody wants to drop their pants and show you a rash or something."
The book, subtitled, "Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini," (Three Rivers Press), is co-authored by humorist Mark Leyner.
"People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops," said Leyner, 49, of Hoboken, New Jersey. "When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid."
Chattering teeth is one way the body tries to generate heat.
When the body gets too cold, the area of the brain called the hypothalamus alerts the rest of the body to begin warming up. Shivering, the rapid muscle movement that generates heat, then begins. Teeth chattering represents localized shivering.
During the course of their research, Goldberg and Leyner found reports of gonorrhea, pinworm and roundworm found on toilet seats -- but catching something from it isn't common.
The authors discovered that an office setting might be worse for your health than toilet seats. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, found the typical office desk harbors some 400 times more disease-causing bacteria than the average toilet seat.
Goldberg had compiled a list of nagging questions for several years before embarking on the book after meeting Leyner. The two met while working on a short-lived ABC-TV medical drama, "Wonderland," in which Leyner served as a writer, while Goldberg was its medical advisor.
BURNING QUESTIONS
Some of the burning questions answered in the humorous book include "What causes morning breath?" and "Why do beans give you gas?"
Goldberg says morning breath results from anaerobic bacteria, the xerostomia (dry mouth) or the volatile sulfur compounds (which are waste products from the bacteria). Other contributing factors to foul oral odor includes medication, alcohol, sugar, smoking, caffeine, and eating dairy products.
Beans contain high percentages of sugars that our bodies are unable to digest, Goldberg explains. When the sugars make it to the intestines, bacteria go to work and start producing large amounts of gas.
And if you're ever bitten by a poisonous snake, sucking at the bite to remove the poison, as often shown in the movies and on TV is not only ineffective, but could lead to an infection.
Instead, the bite should be washed with soap and water and immobilized. The bitten area should also be kept lower than the heart. Medical help should be sought immediately.
And why do men have nipples?
While only females have mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo, the authors explain. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in.
Men, however, have already developed nipples. |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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I believe the phenomenon can also be derived deductively. Let us borrow the fundamental logic of the famous syllogism,
All men are mortal;
Socrates is a man;
Therefore Socrates is mortal.
Along the same lines,
All men are mortal;
To die is to go t1ts up;
All t1ts have nipples;
Therefore all men have nipples.[/i] |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| vestigial. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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gives the ladies something to play with  |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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so they can lactate, ofcourse. 
it's true though, men can lactate, it just takes more work than it does for women. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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care to show me how it's done?!  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: Why do men have nipples? |
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| manlyboy wrote: |
| ...we all start out in a similar way in the embryo, the authors explain. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in. Men, however, have already developed nipples. |
We are all female until week six? There's no male organ development until after that? It sure must grow fast if it's detectable on a sonogram after just a couple of months.
And,... that means Adam came from Eve, so to speak, contrary to the very male-dominant cultures of the Middle East (including ancient judaism).
Interesting. |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Where else would I put my nipple rings?  |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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