You have before you the handful of burning candles. You close your eyes Make a wish. And whoa … you blow hard to put out that small fire that has one more figure at your age. However, what you just did, while it has become an ingrained tradition, is not very smart.
In fact, it is a bad idea. Not so much for you as for your guests. In their respective slices of cake, they will find 14 times more bacteria than normal because of you .
Bacteria on the cake
New research by Paul Dawson , a researcher at Clemson University in South Carolina, is responsible for taking some magic out of the habit of blowing out candles on your birthday (and any other day, for that matter).
To measure how and to what extent blowing out the candles produced this effect, the study selected a group of subjects who ate various archetypal foods from a birthday party in order to stimulate their salivary glands and then had to blow out the candles. of the cake .
Dawson himself warns that anyone’s mouth is full of microorganisms, although, fortunately, most of them are not harmful. In any case, their results reveal that the practice of blowing out candles on a birthday can be used to spread colds and similar ailments among children .
Naturally, following this logic, it is also not very healthy to blow on a wound to avoid itching, as well as [many other daily activities that do not seem disgusting but are] (To measure how blowing the candles produced this effect and to what extent , in the study a group of subjects was selected who ate various archetypal foods of a birthday party in order to stimulate their salivary glands).
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