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...
Today Hon. Ababu got a good platform and a great opportunity to push his case for ODM Elections. I have asked an MP who also attended the meeting and he's told me the man was ever on his phone, on his facebook, on his WhatsApp; making inboxes and sending messages. Recently, in a soliloquy in the Standard entitled 'In the Face of evil, silence is not golden', Hon. Namwamba laboured to prove to his readers that there is no award in playing safe politics. He invited his readers to his world, from the King of Syria to Machiavelli to Robert Green. Essentially, Mr. Namwamba was driving a very important point home: That it will be his way, or, God forbid, the highway. Many of us in ODM, especially we 'young people', still do not agree with the reasons often peddled by top party honchos for bungling the Kasarani Elections. We have reason to put a brave face and tell off other political outfits in Kenya (some which are more sacco-like than parties) to mind their own business...