Is it true that the body grows hair on the stomach and back to keep warm cause of no fat to?
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yesss i have heard of that. i have read it an a health book. trust me that is true.
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It is believed that the functions of pubic hair include the dissemination of pheromones and protection from the friction of sexual intercourse. Natural selection may also have sustained it because it can show a potential sexual partner that the other person is sexually mature and can reproduce. Pubic hair and the growth between the tops of the legs and the buttocks, like under arm hair, helps to lubricate the areas, making movement smoother and more comfortable.\n\nThere is no definitive theory on the reason for the existence of pubic hair. The prevailing theory relates to pheromones — scents that the body produces that can be sexually stimulating to others. In this theory, the tufts of hair that grow around the genitals, as well as under the arms, capture these erotic scents. Pheromones get trapped in the pubic hair when apocrine glands release an odorless secretion on the surface of the skin that combines with bacteria decomposed by the secretions of the sebaceous glands. Humans have the same number of hair follicles as gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans, but body hair is generally very fine or barely visible in comparison. So, while pubic hair and underarm hair might be considered the primary scent traps, they are not the only ones. For some people, scents from these areas are noticeable and consciously increase sexual arousal. Pheromones might not be obvious but may be detected subconsciously.\n\nAnother theory is that the pubic hair keeps the genitals warm. The purpose of women's pubic hair could be similar to that of the cilia in the nose, in that it prevents small foreign particles from entering the vagina. If this is true, male pubic hair may be a vestigial trait.
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it may be build up of body fat, it could be harmless however its best to go and get a doctor to check it, hope everything works out for u
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No. The only thing that can cause your facial hair to grow is genetics. Anybody that tells you any different and has no scientific proof is full of it.
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It's not good because then your body begins to use it's fat for energy...and when you start eating again it will cause you to gain more weight than before.
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since its for your project i'll try to be as brief as possible and provide as much info.\n\nDifferent parts of the body are at different temperatures. the skin temperature is lower than the liver temperature and the feet and hands may be colder than the abdomen. however 'body-temperature' usually means the temperature deep inside the body. the temperature varies during the day and there is no 'correct' body temperature. variations in the range of 35.8-37.7*C are normal.\n\nInternal heat:\nMany of the chemical reactions in cells release heat. the chief heat organs are the abdominal organs, the brain and contracting muscles.\n\nExternal:\nDirect heat from the sun absorbed by the skin, hot drinks and food also add heat to body.\nEvaporation from the skin and lungs takes place all the time and is a cause of heat loss. to a large extent, the heat lost from the body is balanced by the heat absorbed or produced.\n\ni hope this much is enough for you.
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Yes, hair on the rest of your body also grows.\n\nEach hair, no matter where it is on your body, head, leg, face or inside your ear, is programmed to grow to a certain length, then stop, live so long, and fall out. \n\nHow about facial hair? It obviously grows constantly, or guys would not have to shave it off all the time. Mustaches, beards and eyebrow hairs fall out when they reach maturity, and if you don't trim it, will grow to the same length each time before falling out. \n\nEach of your hundreds of thousands of hairs on your head are on rotating growth cycles, with about a 100 hairs falling off every day.\n\nEach one is on its own random cycle so you don't lose them all on one day. Your whole body works like that. \n\nToday, several million of your bloods cells died, and today the same amount were born. Everything dies and regenerates. Your stomach cells dissolve and are replaced every few days, bone cells take much longer. Every 7 years, there is not one cell in your body that is left from 7 years ago.\n\nSo every 7 years, you are totally new. That's why when someone asks how old I am, I always say 7 years old. \n\nWe are like a wave in the ocean...it is not a moving hunk of water in the shape of a wave moving as a unit from ocean to shore. It is a moving pattern, made of NEW water every few feet. The wave, like your body, just retains the pattern of you, not the specific stuff of which you are made.
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Yes, I think so! More fuel to feed our growing bodies-- mine isn't growing much anymore though! And plus, adults' metabolisms are usually slower than ours... :-)
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In contrast to most mammals, humans do not have an all-embracing intense hair on their body. Several theories have been advanced to explain the bareness of human body hair. One suggests that nature selected humans for shorter and thinner body hair as part of a set of adaptations including bipedal locomotion and an upright posture. There are several problems with this savanna theory, not least of which is that cursorial hunting is used by (other) animals that do not show any thinning of hair, and that hair similar to chimpanzees and gorillas also shades the skin from radiant heat and protects it from hot winds, and thus another mechanism for heat loss is not required. Another problem is that bipedal locomotion apparently now predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. A more recent theory for human hair loss has to do with a possible period of bipedal wading in a salt marsh in the Danakil region of Ethiopia, possibly occurring in the hominid lineage between 5 and 7 million years ago. As a wading animal, it was more efficient to develop short body hair and a layer of subcutaneous fat for streamlining and insulation in the aquatic environment; the eccrine sweat glands developed later after the hominids left the water; see Aquatic ape hypothesis. One problem with this theory is that both chimpanzees and gorillas have the same density and distribution of the eccrine glands, but that they have not been developed for sweat production.\n\nA third theory for the thin body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a role here (as well as in the selection of long head hair). Possibly this occurred in conjunction with neoteny, with the more juvenile appearing females being selected by males as more desirable; see types of hair and vellus hair. The human female body hair typically has more vellus hair (making the skin appear bare), while the male body typically has more terminal hair (especially on the chest, abdomen and back). Thus sexual selection can explain the sexual dimorphism in human body hair, with the results of selection being more evident (more extreme) in the female than in the male, a point which the other two theories cannot address without proposing substantially different behavior between males and females. Also, we see that artificially bare (shaved, etc.) legs, arms, etc. on women are seen as "sexy" even today, while body shaving is not nearly as common for men.
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What actually happens with your body when you get these bumps is when you're cold or scared etc.your arrector muscles pull your hair up, and your blood vessels and ducts to your sweat glands get small to conserve heat.
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I noticed a drastic increase in pubic hair on my wife after 2 kids.  The spread increased.  I think it was the hormones and body changes form both childbearing and age she is 29 now.
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Yes. You can grow taller, and not gain weight as you do, which will make you look thinner as your original weight redistributes in your body.\n\nYou can also get sick in some way and start losing weight without knowing you are sick. (Diabetes or something.)
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warmth is one of them. And you can thank god for that cuz we arnt born with fur to cover our whole body......lololololol:))
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NO NO & NO! If you ever notice the hair on your face becomes stubble when it grows back after being shaven. Same thing will happen with chest or any other hair, it grows back thicker!\n\nhttp://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/
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Exercise involves lots of aerobic respiration, which is WORK, esp as all the muscles are contracting=WORKING.  98.6F is an approximate temp. we do NOT stay there all the time and our temp changes all day depending what we are doing.  In fact in females who are not on the pill or other hormones, the body temp fluctuates all during the month due to the different hormones in the blood (say 96 to 99 deg F) , but 98.6F is "normal" homeostasis body temp for the "sleeping-idle person...we are close to homeostasis at this temp, but during exercise, the body temp will naturally go up, but the body wants to cool you off so you don't FRY-COOK-DENATURE all your metabolic enzymes and go into HYPERTHERMIA.  If you are in good shape you may be able to cool off better than others!\n\nThis cell respiration process during exercise produces lots of ATP and body-muscle heat, which is lost as well. Body needs to cool off from doing all this WORK!  Skin can help us with thermo-regulation in several ways.  When we sweat, the moisure of sweat plus the heat helps reduce body temp by evaporative cooling.  Also,when we get red-overheated,the blood goes to perpheral circulation in skin to bring blood-heat to the surface to be lost by convection with the air currents.  Heat can also leave skin by radiation too.  You can feel heat coming off red sun burned or fevered people.
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The type of food doesn't matter. Your body just stores fat from the calories you consume wherever it wants to. If you want more shape behind, you just have to gain a little weight and do some muscle-building exercises.
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Stress could cause hair loss. If you're not eating right, you could be losing hair due to malnutrition also.