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...
Young, energetic, curious and restless are just some of the adjectives used to describe people belonging to this crucial age cohort. They have just finished school or have just landed their first job(s). They are at a stage in life where they barely know what to do or who to talk to. Save for classroom education, most of them don’t have much experience in anything. They are broke or literary surviving on meager resources. So is it possible to start investing at this age? If yes, how should a person in their 20s invest? Let me talk about how you can make good investment-driven choices at a young age. 1. Look For Skills Not Money Just because you failed form 4 or you have just graduated from college doesn’t mean you should stop looking for more knowledge. Likewise, just because you are in campus pursuing a degree and dreaming of getting a big job one day doesn’t give you the ticket to slumber. This is the perfect time to acquire an additional skill. This is the...