Is it possible to tell by appearance? How to determine temperament by appearance

According to the Osh City Center for Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, a case of food poisoning "botulism" was registered with six victims, including one child.

Prior to this, the Ministry of Health had already experienced an outbreak of botulism with 24 victims from Jalal-Abad and Naryn regions.

Can you tell if canned food contains botulinum toxin? website I asked Toktogul Bazarbaev, Head of the Department for Supervision of Food Safety and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases of the Department for Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance.

What is botulism and why is it dangerous?

Botulism- an acute infectious disease that occurs as a result of the use of products containing a toxin produced by botulism bacteria, and is characterized by muscle paralysis.

Botulism bacteria multiply and secrete the strongest natural toxin (poison), the lethal dose of which for humans is within 0.3 micrograms, it is formed in the absence of oxygen, the toxin is 375 thousand times stronger than the venom of a rattlesnake.

What are the signs of botulism poisoning?

Botulism is considered an extremely dangerous disease, ending in death, if you suspect a disease, you should immediately seek medical help.

The duration of the incubation period is from two hours to ten days. Most often - 12 to 24 hours.

First signs: weakness, dizziness, headache, dry mouth.

The onset of the disease is sometimes accompanied by vomiting, flatulence, loose stools, which is often mistaken for food poisoning.

After a few hours, and sometimes after 1-2 days, visual disturbances inherent in botulism appear: objects seem blurry ("grid", "fog"), it is impossible to read, sometimes it doubles in the eyes.

Swallowing is often disturbed. There is a feeling of the presence of a foreign body in the throat, perspiration, swallowing food is difficult. The face is mask-like, pupils are dilated, breathing is shallow.

Patients with botulism should only be treated in a hospital, as the treatment is specific and requires inpatient conditions and the availability of a botulinum vaccine.

Is it possible to determine by the appearance of canned food that they contain a toxin?

No. There is no evidence that canned food contains botulinum toxin. Canned food looks normal on the outside, with no signs of spoilage. The taste and color of the products also does not change. Bacteria multiply, dying, they release a toxin, the presence of which cannot be determined.

But what about the swollen lid and bubbles?

A swollen lid is a sign of the presence of other microorganisms. They give off oxygen, which causes the lid of the jar to swell. Botulism develops in the absence of oxygen.

What Canned Foods May Contain Botulinum Toxin?

In any where canned foods are poorly processed and small particles of soil remain on them, in which the microbe lives. It reproduces by spores, which end up in canned food. Spores are very resistant to high temperatures. You can "kill" them only with prolonged boiling at a temperature of more than 100 degrees.

Basically, people get poisoned after eating salads, mushrooms, home-canned vegetables.

What are the preventive measures for botulism?

Follow the technology of cooking at home: thorough hand sanitizing before cooking and after contact with raw products, using separate cutting boards and knives for cutting raw products and finished products.

It is impossible to preserve stale, spoiled vegetables, fruits, berries.

With factory canning, an autoclaving procedure is carried out, where the bacterium dies under high pressure of more than 120 atmospheres.

Purchase prepared food from trade and public catering organizations that have properly organized the production and sale of food products, do not purchase prepared food in random places.

Never buy homemade canned food from your hands.

Sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic - these are four types of people, four different temperaments. What is behind this definition and how to recognize the character by external signs?

What is temperament

Temperament is an unchanging, innate thing, nothing can be done about it. Temperament determines a person's reaction to circumstances and other people. There are no bad temperaments, there is only their poor compatibility. Socionics proposes to determine temperament at a glance. Only they do this not by individual symptoms, but by their totality.

How to distinguish a sanguine

They say about sanguine people: there should be a lot of a good person. Sanguine people are characterized by:

• round, resembling a ball, torso;
• low or medium height;
• rounded shapes;
• rounded belly - accent in the center of the body;
• wide bones;
• broad muscles;
• well-defined adipose tissue
• fat is able to be deposited in all parts of the body evenly;
• the metabolic rate is low - weight rapidly increases, even if you eat small portions;
• the forehead is rounded, without bumps and protrusions;
• the forehead is smoothly rounded, the transition to the hairline is almost imperceptible;
• cheekbones and chin are not expressed;
• potato nose, duck-like, slightly upturned, but clearly never expressed.

How to distinguish phlegmatic

Usually this:

• people resembling heroes;
• reasonable;
• slow;
• you can find out by slow motions;
• calm and confident, like a floating gait;
• square-rectangular, barrel-shaped body;
• angular shapes;
• dense, massive, tightly knitted figure;
• the muscles are strong, massive, strong;
• round, short or medium thickness and length of legs and arms
• have a tendency to obesity;
• the nose is straight, large, protrudes forward, the tip is pubescent downwards.

How to distinguish choleric

Representatives of this type of temperament:

• do not go, but always rush somewhere
• they do not sit still;
• they run, jump like clockwork;
• choleric is characterized by fragility of appearance;
• thinness;
• thinness;
• pointed chin;
• cheekbones strongly or moderately pronounced, pointed, protruding;
• a nose with a pronounced shape - a bird's, with a hump, strongly protruding, elongated, pointed, elongated forward;
• the tip of the nose is lowered down in relation to the base.

How to distinguish a melancholic

Melancholics are called dull romantics, poets, servants of rain, autumn, bad weather. They are distinguished:

• refined facial features;
• signs of boundless longing in the eyes;
• fragility of appearance;
• thinness;
• thinness;
• thin, flat, weak muscles;
• protruding bones;
• thin, long bones and muscles;
• flat back;
• long, narrow, concave or flat chest;
• costal acute angle;
• wide pelvis and shoulders;
• slim waist;
• the nose is pointed, elongated, protrudes forward, pronounced.

Socionics is a science, but even exact sciences fail. Better keep that in mind.

The appearance of a person can give out certain personal characteristics and preferences! How?

We hear a lot about not judging a book by its cover. But in relation to people, things are somewhat different. The appearance of a person can give out certain personal characteristics and preferences.

All that is required is the ability to correctly interpret them. As in the previous cases, the methods described below are not 100% accurate, and there is always the possibility of their error. Nonetheless…

1. Shoes can reveal a person's personality type.

Let's note right away that we are not talking about the obvious, such as goths or metalheads in black boots, hippies in sandals or hipsters in old curtains wrapped around their legs. According to science, a person's shoes can tell about his relationship with other people.

A study conducted at a couple of colleges revealed certain patterns in how people choose shoes. Of course, she could not tell about political preferences, but she gave out a ton of other personal information, including potential insecurity and dependence in close relationships. Here are just a few of the examples described by science:

• Restless and dependent people prefer to wear new and well-maintained shoes to calm their nerves.
• People who wear practical shoes tend to be relatively pleasant to talk to.
• Calm and collected individuals find pleasure in seemingly uncomfortable shoes.
• And aggressive personalities tend to wear uniform boots with berets to the ankles.

If, after reading this, you thought that your shoes cannot tell anything so personal about you, since when buying you are guided, say, by its price and convenience, then do not forget that your way of thinking is natural for a certain type of personality. And that's the whole point. Regardless of what logic you follow when choosing certain shoes, boots or boots, you follow exactly the logic that matches your personality type. And the purchase reveals this type to the whole world.

2. Pleasant people are more likely to eat sweets.

Imagine a pleasant person to talk to. And pay special attention to those qualities that make this person pleasing in the eyes of other people. Most likely he is kind and helpful. Definitely hilarious. Surely honest and flexible enough to take hits while you yourself get away from a wrestler who has his ass flashed in a drunken stupor. All this is quite consistent with the image of a pleasant person. And perhaps, if you're feeling sentimental, you'll even call it "sweet."

Sweet. It's a pretty ironic word in this context, if you think about it. There is nothing sweet about nice people, unless you suddenly decide to cover them with caramel. And what gave rise to such an association between "sweet" and "pleasant"? Obviously, their daily behavior: it seems that eating sweets can turn a person into an ordinary Good Samaritan.

Let's make it clear right away that we are not talking about how a gift of chocolate can cheer up a person and thus make him want to do good things (by the way, one study confirmed this fact, although it is quite obvious in itself). Scientists conducted five different studies and found that sweet lovers are more pleasant and do good deeds more often than those who eat chips during a snack, for example.

And what is most surprising, the participants in the experiment knew in advance what the result would be. In a survey conducted before the start of the experiment, they expressed the idea that lovers of sweets would be more selfless and kind than lovers of salty. The experience only confirmed what people already knew and observed in everyday life, even if this did not make any sense.

3. If a woman lulls a baby with her right hand, then she is depressed.

The birth of a child is supposed to be the happiest moment in the life of any mother, but according to statistics, one woman in ten suffers from postpartum depression. And, perhaps, this is not surprising, because she really experiences a lot of stress, both physically and psychologically, not to mention the fact that the little peanut constantly yells when she tries to sleep.

So if you suddenly have a friend or relative who has recently given birth, and you want to know how she is feeling, you can either ask her or look at which hand she holds the baby with. No kidding.

Find your baby photos and see which hand your mother uses to lull you to sleep. Or just imagine holding a baby. Which hand will you use? Most likely the left. The vast majority of people use their left hand for this, regardless of whether they are left-handed or right-handed. This is one of those little quirks that are inherent in the human body.

When the scientists began to study the topic in more detail, they discovered that it could serve as a potential way to determine whether a new mother is depressed or not. Mothers who are stressed and experiencing depression are much more likely to lull their babies with their right hand than healthy and happy mothers: 14% of happy mothers versus 32% of depressed ones. Although scientists still find it difficult to explain the reason for this.

We mentioned last time that people with wide cheekbones tend to be less trustworthy. It looks like an unfair stereotype, but in reality it's just chemistry - the more testosterone, the larger the face. And the amount of testosterone directly determines the type of your personality.

Also, the classic image of a jock with a can of beer in his hand has already managed to gain a foothold in society: a large, broad-faced guy with an eternal grin and rough features. This type of face can be found in many American youth films. He wears his sports team jacket, sips beer, speaks dumb slang, and bullies the girls at school, making you feel like a loser who takes years to figure out that you really weren't. But in certain situations, this badass-looking guy can actually be quite nice... as long as he thinks you're on the same team as him.

Such people do what they do not because they are cruel. They just have a strong spirit of competition.

To determine this, the scientists divided the male volunteers into groups and asked them to play a team game. At the same time, some were told that their results would be compared with the results of another school, while others played just for the sake of playing. As a result, guys with the classic "hooligan" faces were more likely to risk their health in order to take first place among the teams ... but only when they were told that they were competing with another school. They were willing to be more altruistic when they thought it would help them win.

Other studies support this theory. As long as the sense of competition is maintained, the bully-faced guy will be more productive, cooperative, and even more willing to sacrifice himself for the team he considers his. And by the way, this extends to higher levels of life: from corporate presidents to presidential candidates, these idiotic, rough and wide features give their owners a strong desire to win, and all because of the amount of testosterone they received in the womb.

If it makes you depressed to think that a person's fate is to such a large extent determined even before they are born... well, we have worse news for you.

5. People with symmetrical features are rich, people with asymmetrical features are leaders.

Science often likes to remind us of the superiority of symmetrical faces, but the reality is even worse: people with symmetrical features not only look better, but they are also likely to be richer than people with asymmetrical features.

On the other hand, the latter have more developed leadership qualities.

Genes, of course, have a considerable influence on this issue, but they are only at the beginning of the path to the formation of facial symmetry. The determining role is played by the conditions of human development. Everything, including cigarette smoke, baby food, socioeconomic status and illness, has an impact on your face, so the easiest way to achieve symmetrical beauty is through wealthy parents.

The results of one study show that people with symmetrical facial features in most cases in childhood lived a privileged life and thus were more likely to become wealthy people themselves.

But, let's say that a person grew up poor and turned into one of the commoners with asymmetrical facial features. He doesn't have a trust fund or a flawless smile, so now he can only rely on his own personal qualities. Moreover, just because this person is not as attractive as Symmetrical, people expect less from him of any achievements in life.

And coincidentally, this is what makes him a more successful leader.

That's right, an endless string of small problems and hardships, which, thanks to an angelic appearance and a thick wallet, will never be experienced by people with symmetrical facial features, make this person a truly effective leader. Of course, this does not mean at all that he automatically becomes Winston Churchill. It just means that he is predestined to become one. Therefore, if you suddenly meet a person with scars on his face in a bar, do not rush to put him at the head of your multinational company.

How to learn something personal about the interlocutor by his appearance

There is a connection between physiology and human nature

Which of us, reading about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, did not envy his ability to figure out the whole ins and outs of people, paying attention to the smallest details of their appearance? Of course, life is much more complicated than the most sophisticated literary fiction, and even very insightful people are unlikely to be able to achieve the perfection of the great detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. However, there are some patterns that allow you to determine character traits or health status based on the physiological characteristics of a person.

1. According to statistics, women with wide hips are less scrupulous in choosing partners.

An amazing fact - by the width of a woman's hips, you can estimate how likely it is that your first date will end in sex. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by employees of the University of Leeds (UK). The researchers studied several aspects of female volunteers' sexual behavior, including the number of sexual partners and the age at which they lost their virginity, and then checked how these indicators correlated with the physical parameters of their waists, hips and buttocks. It turned out that the fair sex with wide hips, as a rule, more often practice "sex without obligations", while women with narrow hips are more prone to long-term relationships and are more careful in choosing partners.

Of course, the objectivity of such a study leaves much to be desired - it is quite possible that the participants simply exaggerated the activity of their sexual life. However, scientists argue that this phenomenon can be explained by biological factors - women with a wide pelvis often have much less problems with the birth of children, so nature itself sets them up for procreation.

2. Sex with obese men tends to last longer.

According to data published in the International Journal of Impotence Research, overweight men are less hasty in sex than slender men. Experts from Turkey have been studying the sex life of men of different builds for a year, and it turned out that full lovemaking lasts an average of 7 minutes 18 seconds, and thin people more than four times less - about 1 minute 43 seconds.

One of the reasons for this may be the fatigue of obese men, which does not allow them to bring sexual intercourse to its logical conclusion on the first attempt, but there are other factors. Obese people often have an increased level of the female hormone (estrogen) in the body, which in some way “slows down” the male body, as a result, ejaculation occurs later. At the same time, it should be noted that men who want to please their partners with prolonged sex should not rush to gain excess weight, since erectile dysfunction is one of the most common side effects of obesity.

3. The color of the eyes can be judged on the predisposition to the sport

As you know, in some sports, success is most often achieved by people with certain physical indicators - for example, to be a professional basketball player, you must have a height above average, and, say, in American football they prefer to take only firmly knocked down, strong guys. Less obvious physical features, such as eye color, can also indicate future outstanding achievements in sports.

The results of several experiments show that people with brown eyes are more likely to succeed in sports that require a quick reaction, including tennis, football or boxing. Blue or green eyes, in turn, are a sign that a person is more suitable for leisurely sports disciplines that require strategic thinking - say, golf, chess or bowling.

Such a curious effect is explained by physiology - bright eyes are more sensitive to sunlight, which complicates the processing of visual information and slows down decision-making for a split second. A simple example - a blue-eyed boxer can be confused even by a glare on the referee's watch, as a result of which he will miss a strong blow, while a brown-eyed boxer in his place would not even pay attention to a visual stimulus.

4. Earlobes 'predict' heart attacks

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the main problems of modern mankind. Their development is significantly influenced by factors such as lifestyle, diet and bad habits, but there is a rather unusual method to immediately determine a person's propensity for a heart attack - pay attention to the shape of his ears.

If there are diagonal folds on the earlobes, which doctors call the "Frank sign", this is a sure sign of a predisposition to the development of cardiovascular diseases. It sounds like something from the realm of fantasy, but such folds really make it possible to judge heart problems. In one study of this phenomenon, doctors examined the bodies of more than three hundred patients who died from heart disease, while "Frank's signs" were found in 72% of men and 67% of women. Later, other experts questioned the value of this experiment and set up their own. The researchers took into account factors such as the presence of jewelry in the ears and even the sleeping posture, but they were forced to admit that there is some connection between the wrinkles in the earlobes and heart disease.

While there is no scientific explanation for such a mysterious phenomenon, experts are at a loss and continue to experiment.

Instruction

Look at the way you dress. Does a person dress with taste or pretense, does he shock with a suit or hide behind it? Demonstrativeness, originality (or the desire to appear as such), courage, independence or vanity can be determined when a person chooses non-standard solutions in appearance.

Be careful when interpreting. For example, a modest suit can hide suspicion, secrecy, caution, a tendency to manipulate, and even. Or it can conceal an outstanding personality, which the world of things is not at all interested in.

Carefully analyze and accessories. Here, the important indicators are moderation and appropriateness. More often, excesses in jewelry are an indicator of vanity, expressiveness, and maybe even some inadequacy of the owner. The absence of accessories or modesty in their use can speak both of the inability to use them, and of the simplicity of a person, straightforwardness or details.

Pay more attention to facial expressions and gestures of a person, especially in situations in which he does not “draw”, does not seek to please. Usually, wide and profuse gestures demonstrate extraversion and expressiveness. Meager and angular gestures speak more about the tightness and insecurity of a person than about character traits.

Use some physiognomy, determining the character of a person by his face. Different parts are associated with its different parts. But be careful, because in the literature many signs are interpreted in different ways.

Look at the top of your face. For example, according to the severity of the eyebrow line, they judge both the strength of character, the inherent energy, and the person’s attitude to business - how much he is inclined to bring what he has started to the end. A forehead line slanted back indicates better interaction with technology, and a straight line, on the contrary, indicates good contact with people, the ability to build relationships.

Analyze the fit of the eyes. A close one speaks of the purposefulness and concentration of a person in time, the ability to be accurate. Wide-set eyes indicate the opposite: "swimming" in time and purpose.

Pronounced, well-defined upper cheekbones are evidence of riskiness as a character trait. In addition, it is argued that it is also an obligation to use your right to risk and receive a reward. Wide lower cheekbones will alert you to a person who is difficult to argue with, who feels confident and unshakable.

Look at the most expressive object on the face - the nose. The round, fleshy tip is said to show a broad and good-natured nature, while the narrow tip is suspicious. A hooked nose betrays a wise person, and indicates commercialism, or a materialistic orientation of a person, but snub-nosed noses often speak of childish naivety and some romanticism of a person.