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...
A liquor that does not cause hangovers has been created in North Korea, according to state-run media.
The DPRK’s Pyongyang Times article claims that Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory had been working on the drink, which “exudes national flavor,” for years, reports NK News.
“Koryo Liquor, which is made of six-year-old Kaesong Koryoinsam[ginseng], known as being highest in medicinal effect, and the scorched rice, is highly appreciated by experts and lovers as it is suave and causes no hangover,”the article reads.
In place of sugar, the ginseng-derived liquor is made with scorched, glutinous rice, which supposedly rids the brew of bitterness and hangovers even though it contains 30%-40% alcohol, according to the BBC.
The insam liquor has been mentioned before by North Korean media. In August, a Korean Central News Agency article reported that the country’s Koryo Songgyungwan University was working to improve Kaesong Koryo Insam Liquor. In 1999, the outlet called it “the elixir of life.”
Far-fetched claims about domestic products are common in the country’s state-run media. According to NK News, it reported last year that medical products with insam extracts could cure Mers, Sars and Aids.
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