Having a shower can 'cause brain damage'

This is London ^ | 7/4/05 | John Higginson

[RockinRight]

Is this the hippies' new justification for not showering?

[Abathar]

I guess the French have known about this for decades.

[HungarianGypsy]

So this is why war protestors don't shower? On a side note, better not let children know this info.

[RedBeaconNY]

...where's the Just Damn guy when you need him...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

The ecoNazis started this anti-hot-shower movement a couple of years ago making this claim. They made this claim the same year they made the claim that walking among pine trees was also injurious to your health in an attempt to keep people out of wilderness areas.

[HeadOn]

Since war protestors do not shower, I would deduce that showers actually enhance intelligence.

[RightWingAtheist]

[highnoon]

"I'm gonna be the head greenskeeper, hopefully within the next six years, that's my schedule."

"You know, cinch bugs, you know, manganese. A lot of people don't even know what that means."

[Just another Joe]

Well, I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
After all, living is just the process of dying.

[Physicist]

HA! I knew the term "thought shower" would end up being offensive to somebody!

[kallisti]

So I got Mad Hatter's Disease from showering too much. That explains it...

[LRS]

[evolved_rage]

So the dangerous chemical, di-hydrogen-monoxide, contains a dangerous gas. In Durbin speak then, di-hydrogen-monoxide must a Nazi plot.

[Millee]

Perfect! LOL!

[Wonder Warthog]

"But they do not take into account inhalation of steam vapour while showering, warn US scientists."

Sorry, dudes, but "inhalation of steam vapor" won't do it. "IF true", the real culprit is small spray droplets of the original shower stream that are in the "respirable particle" size range---NOT steam.

[GadareneDemoniac]

Mark my words, within two years, some other "scientist" will issue a press release that showering is good for the brain.

The key phrase in all these "studies" is: "More research is needed", in other words, justification for more grant money.

Of course, you dare not tell that to some ( maybe even on FR ) who think that scientists are little gods.

[Tax-chick]

Nobody gets a 10-minute shower in my house! We're paying for that water, and the gas to heat it!

[Aonecountry]

You sound like my dad. LOL

[hc87]

If I recall correctly, steam in the shower (and associated toxic particles) was the method of contamination in the Woburn cancer cluster case made famous in the book "A Civil Action". the book was later made into a movie with John Travolta.

My memory is that the Woburn residents were drinking bottled water but still using local well water for dishes and showers. The well water was contaminated with a cancer causing industrial chemical, either a solvent or cleaning fluid.

Nasty stuff.