they shower about twice a week and wash their hair only once a week. that way they keep their natural body oils, they're rarely sick and the dutch kids don't have headlice. i think it's because of the legal weed, the fresh air and the cycling. are you dutch? if so how often do you shower and rinse your hair?
2007-01-03 09:42:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
First of all, the Dutch are very healthy because we eat a lot of vegetables and drink al lot of milk, move more (cycle) etc. Most ppl shower every day. Dutch kids DO get headlice (who told you that they don't??). And we also DO get sick! There's always a flu going around. Also, not everybody smokes weed. I think that most ppl don't do drugs actually. I myself shower every day at least once! during the winter I shower once a day and during the summer twice a day. I wash my hair every other day. Ok, there might be ppl that shower twice a week, but I've never met one before (tg!)!
I also think that not showering does not make you healthier. If it was, they would've probably thought me that in medschool! I think that that is just a myth little kids made up so they could skip the showering.
2007-01-06 11:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by Lotje 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is an (international) urban legend!
I'm married to a Dutch guy who showers almost daily, has almost no hair left to wash and doesn't cycle (although he does work out several times a week at the gym and would be out at sea sailing for weeks, if not months, if he had the time and we had the money to buy a boat!). He doesn't smoke anything!
Head lice are practically an epidemic in much of Europe especially in (primary) elementary schools in the autumn.
Traditionally -- and generally -- the Dutch are very active, walking a lot, cycling perhaps even more, skating en masse in the winter WHEN the canals freeze over (which is NOT happening at all this year).
2007-01-03 09:57:58 · answer #2 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prey, what be this I espy A wee star-lingering on breeze-drift of smoky sky? Or once - heart - throb in whipped winds` downy sky? Nay! - `Tis night in gale`s faecetious scry! Methinks this perez-grin a - shuns the light of day Lest it be pecked, and mother goose doo cry! Yes, that pen grins ....mightier and more recogniseably well-feather-dusted, than the clawed. Edit:: *Heck, if I had not been naughty and had a large tiramisu AND a rose-water cheesecake in 3 days when my glucose-count`s high, I would have been let orf answering?*
2016-03-29 06:25:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
o.k. the oils thing is right for the hair but not the body. you need to wash or your poors get clogged and you can become sick. also, did you know that sweat actually contains urea(urine) that is why it smells so bad.the cycling is very healthy as is fresh air. i went to amstedam when i was in the army.
2007-01-03 09:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Although many continental Europeans have not adopted American levels of obsession with hygiene, They still remain quite clean. I believe that their good health is more likely attributed to their excellent and conprehensive universal health care.
2007-01-03 09:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by Diminati 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get that load of rubbish? Too funny.
2007-01-03 09:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are probably healthy because the have free national health care.
2007-01-03 09:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by janet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋