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TOP 12 INFECTIOUS PLACES/THINGS WHERE YOU RISK EXPOSURE TO GERMS, MICRO ORGANISMS – VIRUSES & BACTERIA:

1. Your kitchen sink – Basin & faucet.
2. Airplane bathrooms – Fecal bacteria in door handles & faucets and germy particles that’s on board & spewed into the air when you flush the toilet.
3. Wet laundry – Dry your clothes or hang them out in the sun which has antibacterial properties. Please note that a dirty pair of underwear has a gram of germs which gets spread around the entire load of laundry very quickly.
4. Drinking fountains – 62000 to 2.7 million bacteria per sq inch, especially those in schools and malls.
5. Shopping cart handles – Germs in handles covered in saliva, bacteria & fecal matter.
6. ATM buttons – 1200 bacteria on the average ATM key. How often those keys are cleaned?
7. Your handbag – beware of where you put down your bag. It can pick up thousands, even millions, of bugs like salmonella, E. coli, staph bacteria and more.
8. Playgrounds – Full of bodily fluids – blood, mucus, saliva and urine.
9. Mats & mattings at health clubs – It houses a bacteria factory with anti-biotic resistance staph bacteria.
10. Bath tubs – 100,000 bacteria per sq. inch, some of which you’ve just washed off your own body.

11.  Office phone – 25,000 germs per sq. inch.

12. Hotel room remote control – How often are those disinfected in between?

HOW TO GET RID OF THESE MICRO ORGANISMS & REDUCE CHANCES OF GETTING INFECTED:

A)  Wash your hands regularly with plain soap and water, which can kill viruses that cause cold,

       Hepa A, gastroenteritis.

B)   Soap and water do work better than the waterless alcohol-based hand wipes and rubs.

C)   Don’t use the antibacterial moulds/soaps because they kill both good and bad bacteria.

D)   Avoid excessive hand washing because it extract the protective oils in our skin.

E)   Get a good night’s sleep.

F)   Minimize stress in your life.

G)   Exercise regularly.

H)   Get enough sun exposure or enough Vitamin D and take a daily dose of Vitamin C.

 9 Reasons to Drink More Coffee

1.  It helps you shed pounds

People who drank more metabolism-firing caffeine gained less weight over 12 years than those who cut back on the coffee, say researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

2.  It powers your workouts

Downing coffee and toast taken between back-to-back workouts can keep you humming, a study from the Journal of applied Physiology reports. Athletes who drank a caffeinated carbohydrate beverage after cycling had 66 percent more glycogen (an energy reserve) in their muscles than those who had a caffeine-free version. Replenishing glycogen helps you go farther and faster in you next session.

3.  It helps you wake up refreshed

Drinking a cup of coffee immediately before taking a 15-30-minute catnap can leave you alert and rested after waking up, according to research from The Sleep Research Centre, Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England. Caffeine takes a half hour to kick in, so it will rouse you after a short snooze. Try these tips to sleep your way gorgeous.    

4.  It can ward off illness

Increasing your coffee intake may prevent liver cancer, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, finds. Two cups of java daily lowered a person’s risk by 43 percent on average. In another study from University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, women who drank coffee had a 24 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease and other inflammatory conditions. Antioxidants in coffee are likely behind the protective benefits.

5. It can ease muscle cramps

Women who had the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee the day after their quadriceps were stimulated (as if they’d done squats) felt 48 percent less leg pain within an hour, research from the University of Georgia in Athens reveals. Caffeine may block the body’s receptors for the ouch-causing chemical adenosine, scientists speculate.

6.  It makes cardio feel like a cinch

Women given the caffeine equivalent of about two cups of coffee an hour before cycling reported 40 percent less pain than those who went decaf, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Caffeine seems to block neurotransmitters that signal discomfort during exercise, researchers say.

7.  It helps you get want you want

Dealing with a difficult person? Broach a tough topic over a cup of joe. Caffeine may make people more open to persuasion, the European Journal of Social Psychology notes. Researchers say it hones cognitive function, causing skeptics to be more receptive to a convincing case.

8.  It may fight breast cancer

Young women drinking four or more cups of caffeinated coffee daily reduces their breast cancer risk by 40 percent compared with nondrinkers, a study in the Journal of Nutrition finds. The caffeine and polyphenols in regular coffee protect against cancer. Worried about getting the jitters? Even two cups every day can help.

9.  It improves recall

Caffeine perks up short-term memory, a study from the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria reveals. One cup of coffee may be all it takes; drink it before a big meeting to be your sharpest.