{"id":2257,"date":"2009-05-05T22:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2009-05-05T22:34:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:34:39","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/2257","title":{"rendered":"Fluffy thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/navel-fluff.jpg\" alt=\"navel-fluff\" width=\"158\" height=\"186\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">But don\u2019t despair the big guns of medical research are being turned on that great question of our time; why do we get fluff in our belly buttons? What is it made of? And why is it usually found in men.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">According to a paper in the Journal Medical Hypotheses (2009 volume 72 pages 623-5) written by a Dr George Steinhauser from the Vienna University of Technology it is made of textile fibres and collects in men\u2019s navels due to the hair that traps it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Unlike physiotherapists and sports medicine practitioners Dr Steinhauser had large numbers of subjects (503 pieces of fluff) and a long 3 year follow up period.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The average quality of navel fluff was 1.82mg.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But don\u2019t despair the big guns of medical research are being turned on that great question of our time; why do we get fluff in our belly buttons? What is it made of? And why is it usually found in men. \u00a0 According to a paper in the Journal Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}