Thread: deadly e. coli

Originally Posted by bitpicker

People need to wise up to the fact that at any time each of them is host to more bacteria, not all of them benign, than the world ever was to humans from the first upright walking ape to today. We're equipped to deal with them.

To be more specific, those who were equipped are living and whoever weren't - are dead. And whenever the new mutations happen to the microbial life forms (which are the true rulers of the world), the history repeats itself. It's just since the invent of the vaccines the humanity became relaxed.

"A little bit of dirt cleans out the stomach" is a Swedish saying used when people pick up some food that's fallen on the floor, and use it anyway.

At home there is no excuse for not being hygienic, and when eating out, one should definitely avoid cheap restaurants where there is reason to question hygiene.

In the UK, most of the health scares are about Chinese takeaway restaurants, or cheap Indian/Bangladeshi restaurants. I don't like either type of food.

One of my favourite grievances/annoyances are commericals about anti-bacterial wipes and sprays. That is such tosh and rubbish. It is certainly not needed! The use of such products are responsible for the rise of superbugs at hospitals.
Basic washing up liquid and maybe chlorine is all that's needed for cleaining in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Basic washing up liquid and maybe chlorine is all that's needed for cleaining in my opinion.

How to Clean a Toilet With Coke - wikiHow

Originally Posted by Crocodile

How to Clean a Toilet With Coke - wikiHow

Why should anyone be amused that an orthophosphoric acid can clean a toilet? It's obvious. Also other cool things can be done with it:

Originally Posted by Hanna

"A little bit of dirt cleans out the stomach" is a Swedish saying used when people pick up some food that's fallen on the floor, and use it anyway.

Russian saying for this case: "Не поваляешь - не поешь." And I also heard: "Быстро поднятое не считается упавшим".

Originally Posted by Basil77

Russian saying for this case: "Не поваляешь - не поешь." And I also heard: "Быстро поднятое не считается упавшим".

American saying for this case: "Kiss it up to God, girl!" (At about the 1:40 mark)

Another American saying for this case would be something like: God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt! -- that's what they taught me in Boy Scouts!

Originally Posted by Hanna

"A little bit of dirt cleans out the stomach" is a Swedish saying used when people pick up some food that's fallen on the floor, and use it anyway.

At home there is no excuse for not being hygienic, ...

There is one: YouTube - ‪Dirt And Germs Good For Kids?‬‏

Originally Posted by Hanna

"A little bit of dirt cleans out the stomach" is a Swedish saying used when people pick up some food that's fallen on the floor, and use it anyway.

Same in German: Dreck reinigt den Magen. And I totally agree about the commercials.

Nice that people agree with me about this! These "antibacterial spray" commercials are particularly bad because they target women..... "Don't you care about the safety of your child....." etc! As if the child might get seriously ill if the mother didn't constantly use these products.

There was a big study comparing the state of health of Swedish kids, with kids from one of the Baltic states in the early 1990s - it got huge publicity because the findings were unexpected to the Swedish researchers. They found that in many aspects the Baltic kids were much healthier than the Swedish kids -- despite the problems that existed in the Baltics at the time; harder to get fresh vegetables, etc. I don't know what the quality of healthcare was in the Baltic states then, compared with Sweden.

Swedish kids were not in bad health at all, but the Baltic kids were more fit and had less allergies, excemas and asthma. One of the reasons given was that they had more more exposure to bugs. Also, they were more active outdoors, just playing and taking part in organised activities.

As a result of this study, their was an information campaign recommending parents NOT to overdo the cleaning, and make sure that the kids were not loafing around indoors but out, playing or being in a club.

Of course, this is 20 years ago, and nowadays kids play computer games for hours a day and antisceptic products are selling better than ever! In England there are plenty of kids of have early onset diabetes and are so overweight that they have to get their school uniforms from special shops for fat kids!

....Isn't it very strange that they (Germany) hasn't found the source of contamination yet...? What are the latest theories?