ALL ANGLES CONSIDED AS THEY COME TO LIGHT

"From the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom, and everything inbetween is covered," says Bob McDonald of his Saturday noon radio science program that is broadcast over Canada's CBC. It is rebroadcast Monday evening again at ll:06 pm and also on Sirius satellite Radio. Check out CBC Radio/Quirks and Quarks and MP3 audio files on their web page.

I was ready to leap from my chair and head for the shower when Bob announced his first item: "The Skinny on Skin." It seems there are approximately one million micro-organisms on every square centimeter of your skin - and ten times more bacteria clothing your body than there are human cells within. It appears that body cells can read our thoughts and chat among their inner family of cells to assess all your thoughts and actions planned. Addressing the work crew within, the foreman says, "Slow down the pulleys that lead to the brakes and I'll text my orders to her brain so the cells can get the synapses clicking through fast enough to send her this message before she rushes off to the shower. We have just made a complete outfit of friendly bacteria to protect her outer body so they can, in turn, protect all the delicate inner cells."

So if anyone calls you a "busy body" it's true for both of you. All this activity is why we require plenty of good food, with enough exercise as well, to nourish all the body cells as it spreads the energies from the food needed by each body cell to keep things moving along. The lady being interviewed added, "Too much unnecessary bathing may be overworking your body cells."

Our love affair with showering every day may be causing the cells to work long hours to create another coat for its outer body wear. And hey, you're helping save the planet by conserving water, and funds that buy the water.