How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
Sometimes it seems we get so caught up in titles and who gets the credit for writing, saying and doing this and that and we allow our egos to run a muck with what once may have started as pure intentions to do good, yet the more energy we put into receiving recognition the less and less our words and deeds have any real impact. Anyone out there trying to make some real changes and touch the lives of another soul will not be interested in being placed on pedestal, it doesn't matter how we help, the point is we get out there and do our part for this world. No names, no titles; just love. You will be shocked at how far we go when we work together as a community and forget about who our egos try to place in hierarchy.
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