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...
If a Kikuyu, Luo, Kalenjin and Luhya were all to be employed on the same day at the same … organization E.G. Kenya Ports Authority, Mombasa and you visited them after 10 years, this is what you would find: KIKUYU -Living in his own house in Mombasa; family living in Mombasa; happily settled at coast -Has rental houses, matatu in Mombasa -Owns a small car 1300cc EFI -Meets a friend at a local cheap bar for nyama choma and one or two beers discussing business JALUO -Living in big expensive rented house. -Has a big car 4000cc petrol -Family living in Mombasa -No investments; Thinks of investing back home but fears being bewitched -Leader of KPA trade Union; Always complaining, agitating for fairness/ equitable distribution of resources -Meets ten friends in a pub with loud music each person has six beers waiting to be drunk and politicking. KALENJIN -Family living in Kericho while he works in Mombasa; wishes there was a Port in Kericho so that he could be nearer home -Has small car 1300cc which is in Kericho -Has bought small farm in Kericho -Believes Kikuyus are thieves; wishes they would be evicted from Rift Valley. -Drinks beer/choma alone or with fellow clansmen and usually less discussions LUHYA -Has 2 wives; one in Bungoma, other in Mombasa -Hopes to get a Luhya MD to give him promotion to ease burden of 2 families -No investments. Beer/Choma, Lingala music and a sweet sixteen girl are favorite. -Amazed by Kikuyus success
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