Filed under: Healthy Living | Tags: acidic skin, bacteria, bacterial colonies, college students, environmental conditions, faith avery, hand washing, healthier living, hormones, LIVING HEALTHIER, living healthy, NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, professor Rob Knight, researchers, space-certified technologies, University of Colorado
Wash your hands!! Especially you ladies.
A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do.
And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find.
“One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between hands on the same individual,” said University of Colorado biochemistry assistant professor Rob Knight, a co-author of the paper.
“The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria we found on the hands of women,” added lead researcher Noah Fierer, an assistant professor in Colorado’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology.
While the researchers stressed the importance of regular hand washing, they noted that it didn’t eliminate bacteria.
Other possibilities are differences in sweat and oil gland production between men and women, the frequency of moisturizer or cosmetics applications, skin thickness or hormone production, he said.
Women also may have more bacteria living under the surface of the skin where they are not accessible to washing, Knight added. The researchers took samples from the palms of 51 college students — that’s 102 hands — and tested the samples using a new, highly detailed system for detecting bacteria DNA.
They identified 4,742 species of bacteria overall, only five of which were on every hand. The average hand harbored 150 species of bacteria. Not only did individuals have few types of bacteria in common, the left and right hands of the same individual shared only about 17 percent of the same bacteria types, the researchers found.
The differences between dominant and non-dominant hands were probably due to environmental conditions like oil production, salinity, moisture or variable environmental surfaces touched by either hand of an individual, Fierer said.
Knight said the researchers hope to repeat the experiment in other countries where different hands are assigned specific tasks.
While the researchers stressed the importance of regular hand washing, they also noted that washing did not eliminate bacteria.
Either the bacterial colonies rapidly re-establish after hand washing, or washing (as practiced by the students included in this study) does not remove the majority of bacteria taxa found on the skin surface,” the researchers said in their report.
While the tests could determine how many different types of bacteria were present, they could not count the total amount of bacteria on each hand.
The research was funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Filed under: Healthy Living | Tags: athletes, Ecoquest, LIVING HEALTHIER, MRSA, Nature's Clean Air, staph infection
Check out this article for information on the problems with staph infections among athletes! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/sports/football/25staph.html
| Experts say staph is a common problem for athletes! |
| If you lead an active lifestyle, read on. |
| Like athletes in other contact sports, football players are prone to staph infections because of their sport’s skin-on-skin contact, the frequency of cuts and the warm, moist conditions in locker rooms, which encourage the growth of bacteria. Because they are regulars in surgery wards, athletes are susceptible to infections there, too.Garden-variety versions of the staphylococcus bacteria are easily treated and have lurked in locker rooms for years, but the problem has received heightened attention in recent years because of the emergence of a strain known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is resistant to some types of antibiotics.
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Filed under: Healthy Living, Nutrition | Tags: Allergies, Alzheimer's, antioxidants, Asthma, Atherosclerosis, Colitis, COPD, diabetes, diseases, Fibromyalgia, Gout, healthier living, help for fibromyalgia, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, LIVING HEALTHIER, muscadine juice, phytochemicals, Psoriasis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Filed under: Healthy Living | Tags: activepure, college infected, dangerous virus, Holland, Hope College, Hope College closed due to contagious virus, LIVING HEALTHIER, mi, virus, www.activepure.com/faithavery, WZZM.com
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Filed under: Healthy Living | Tags: cold and flu season, colds, faith avery, flu, Healthy Living, indoor air environment, LIVING HEALTHIER, pollution solution
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Filed under: Healthy Living | Tags: Air Purification, air quality test, air quality testing, bacteria, contaminants, indoor air quality solutions, mold, SBS, sick building syndrome, virus
What is Sick Building Syndrome & Why Should We Be Worried About Our Health?
Today, being Halloween, I thought I would write about something scary. One of the scariest things I thought of to write about was Sick building syndrome. It’s real, it’s scary & not enough people are aware of this problem! Sick Building Sydrome (SBS) is a situation in which occupants or residents of a building experience health effects that seem to be linked to time spent in a building. The problem is usually spread throughout the building and is often a result of poor indoor air quality. Some of the main contributing factors to the problem include inadequate ventilation, chemical contaminants from indoor or outdoor sources, and biological contaminants (bacteria, viruses, molds, etc.).
The National Safety Council provided a list of relevant symptoms for the occupants of a building with SBS. These symptoms include headaches; dizziness and nausea, eye, nose, and throat irritation; coughing; difficulty in concentrating; fatigue; and several others. With SBS, most people feel relief soon after leaving the building. Unfortunately, SBS tends to reduce the overall health and wellness, along with productivity, of those affected.
This is a problem that has been recognized for years as seriously affecting indoor environments. “It’s the No. 1 health and safety issue…as far as the workplace,” according to Bill Borwegen, the health and safety director of the Service Employees International Union.
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