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- Rodale
- July 29, 2011
- 5:01 pm
- 539 comments
3. Condiment dispensers
It’s the rare eatery that regularly bleaches its condiment containers. And the reality is that many people don’t wash their hands before eating, says Kelly Reynolds, PhD. So while you may be diligent, the guy who poured the ketchup before you may not have been, which means his germs are now on your fries. Squirt hand sanitizer on the outside of the condiment bottle or use a disinfectant wipe before you grab it. Holding the bottle with a napkin won’t help; napkins are porous, so microorganisms can pass right through, Reynolds says.
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never heard of milk & eggs.
Good tips, thanks for sharing.
As a vegetarian, it still grosses me out, and I wouldn't eat it, but I would rather see meat-eaters …
With Lydia and Helen K. on this one. Misleading since it implies making your own and then states fo…
I would try a walking meeting with Emmanuelle Béart for sure!, cough, cough...
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+ add your ownOooooooooooooooooooooo! We are all going to die! Sanitize everything, sit down and then breathe...but you could be breathing in all sorts of bacteria, viruses, toxins....time to enclose ourselves in one giant glass bubble!
This was the stuff of Howard Hughes' worse nightmare, especially his favourite that outer space was filled with bacteria, headed to Earth via the latest space rocks breaking up in the atmosphere.bringing in bacteria that could survive in the harshest elements.
While personal hygiene is essential we can truly go overboard. Remember also there are many bacteria that live on us that are friendly and if we take sanitizing to the extreme a lot of our immunity is sacrificed. Now breathe!
I always thought Restaurant menus were disgusting!
it´s the truth, thanks for the article
Our plastic money is pretty filthy too ..
I would add ATM cash dispensers - I also saw a woman sit a child with a wet nappy on the supermarket checkout belt on the counter where you stack your food, also another Indian woman washing her babies pooey bum in a bubbler at the beach .....and NO ONE says anything.
thanks for sharing
Wow- lemon wedges? Would've never thought that!
And isn't it kinda funny, soap dispensers and doctor's offices are both made to make us better... But they're just full of germs!
Peanuts or other bar food in a bowl! Yucko! I always ask for mine to be given to me in the bag in which it came, thanks all the same. The germs on the average snack bar bowl are teeming. Sometimes I find it a wonder we aren't all a lot sicker when you think of all the gross germs about - the immune system sure is a wonderful thing.
Use paper towel for public washroom pumps although many have gone touch free. My challenge is to find warm water in public washrooms.
ewww. I never even thought about lemon wedges, I always ask for my water WITH lemon because its a detoxer.
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