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...
by BERNADINE MUTANU, Nairobi will soon be treated to a new beverage as miraa traders offer miraa juice, tea and cappuccino. It will be sold in clubs and other outlets. It will be launched at a Miraa Night to be be held on Saturday where the juice and other by-products will be showcased. “We are targeting the middle class who have stopped chewing miraa,” said Kimani Munjuri. He claimed that middle class miraa chewers had been doing it in their cars and other hideouts for fear of stigmatisation since the habit is usually associated with falling teeth and poverty. “We want to show the public that miraa can be chewed and used in mainstream any club. It is not necessary for one to litter around or have green colour all over the mouth as he enjoying miraa,” he said. He added that miraa could help people lose weight in addition to the twig being a stimulant. He said the traders were working on establishing a factory for mass production of the by-products to cater for the need during dry seasons when prices shoot up. “We want to be classified with EABL products, tea, coffee or tourism because we also want to contribute to the country’s economy,” he said.
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