MIAMI. – The International Day of Kiss It’s this Saturday, April 13. Although the custom of kissing is a universal practice, the type of kiss given and its meaning vary from one person to another. culture to another.
The first kisses that have been documented do not certify that they are the first in history, but they are located in Mesopotamia and Egypt 2,500 years before the current era.
The RAE points out that kissing means “to touch or press with a movement of the lips, driven by love or desire or as a sign of friendship or reverence.” In 2013, Ekachai and Laksana Tiranarat, a Thai couple, entered the Guinness Book of Records after having the longest kiss: They kissed for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds. In this way, they surpassed their own record by two minutes.
It is worth saying that the record for the popularity of a kiss is held by the one registered on August 14, 1945, in Time Square, in NYby photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt: a sailor kissed a nurse he didn’t know after the end of World War II.
The kiss and the bacteria
In the act of kissing, thousands of bacteria, almost always harmless, are transferred from one mouth to another. According to a study by the Netherlands Applied Scientific Research Organization, a 10-second intimate kiss can transfer 80 million bacteria.
“The more a couple kisses, the more similar their bacterial communities will be,” says Remco Kort, head of the research.
And kiss, In immunocompromised people, it can cause the common cold, mononucleosis. influenza and cold sores, among other consequences.
Kissing a special being increases the rhythm heart rate that can rise from 60 to 199 beats to 100 in a few seconds. With this, it is estimated that kisses can promote cardiovascular resistance.
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Source: International Day Portal / UNAM / El Comercio
