Do We Really Need To Wash Our Hands?

Do We Really Need To Wash Our Hands? by Diana Corso of www.NutritionalUpdates.com We were told from the time that we were little kids to wash our hands. "Did you wash your hands before dinner"? Our mothers would ask. "Wash up before bed" our parents often commanded. "Johnny, stop picking your nose. Now go wash up before you eat" I’m sure that most of us out there have heard these shouts or something similar to them from our parents as we were growing up. What is the big deal about this anyway? Well, that is what this article about. The Center of Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta cites five common ways in which those disease- causing germs can be transmitted on our household. The first is hands to food. Here, the germs are transmitted from dirty hands to food. You or View the rest of this article