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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...

Lessons from the HEN

1. She first lays enough eggs before sitting on them:
GOOD PLANNING.
2. When she starts sitting on her eggs, she
minimizes movement: DISCIPLINE.
3. She physically loses weight while sitting on her
eggs due to decreased feeding: SACRIFICE and
SELF DENIAL.
4. She can sit on eggs from another hen:
INDISCRIMINATE and GENEROUS.
5. She sits on her eggs for 21 days, patiently
waiting and even if they don't hatch she will still lay
eggs again: FAITH, HOPE and COURAGE.
6. She detects unfertilized eggs and rolls them out:
SENSITIVE and DISCERNING.
7. She abandons the rotten eggs and starts caring
for the hatched chicks even if it is only one: WISE,
CONSCIOUS and REALISTIC.
8. No one can touch her chick: PROTECTIVE LOVE.
9. She gathers all her Chicks together: UNITY of
PURPOSE.
10. She doesn't abandon her chicks before they
mature: MENTORING.
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