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Interesting things to know about the towel

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...

The Beauty of Time

Time is a beatiful commodity.It is part of the hardware of life.What you do with it shapes,in so many ways,what your life looks like.And yet,while almost every one of us wishes for more time,we misuse the time we have.People who have the most time for fun are those who know how to plan and then use their time well,the people who feel stress the most and lead and make no time to set schedules,articulate goals and follow well thought out plans.Anxiety is caused by lack of control,organization,preparation and action.

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