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...
President Obama released his 2014 tax returns with reported income of $477,383. The president, who filed jointly with his wife Michelle, paid $93,362 in taxes at a rate of 19.6%.They also paid $22,640 in state income tax to Illinois, where they own a home. The first couple donated 14.8% of their total income to charity with $70,712 in donations to 33 non profit organizations. The largest contributions went to the Fisher House Foundation ($22,012) and Sidwell Friends School ($5,000), the DC private school where daughters Malia and Sasha attend. They also tithed $1,500 to St. John's Episcopal Church in DC, where the family has attended Sunday services. Obama also made good on his promise to donate to the ALS Association with a $200 gift, after he opted not to take part in the Ice Bucket challenge in support of the group last summer. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, also released their tax returnsand reported joint income in 2014 of $388,844. They were taxed at the rate of 23.3% and paid $90,506 in federal income tax along with $13,661 in Delaware income tax. Jill Biden, who teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College, paid $3,777 in Virginia income tax. The Bidens contributed $7,380 to charity in 2014. They donated to education non profits along with Catholic charities and a Presbyterian church.
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