Quotes About Hygiene

Stay hydrated! Thats the most important thing, in my opinion. Drink plenty of water, and use moisturizer every single day.

Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

the front, brushed her teeth, and went to bed

Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

If your pillow is six years old (apparently average age for a pillow) it has been estimated that one tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

The average adult touches his face sixteen times an hour

We are actually getting worse at some matters of hygiene. Dr. Maunder believes that the move toward low-temperature washing machine detergents has encouraged bugs to proliferate. As he puts it: "If you wash lousy clothing at low temperatures, all you get is cleaner lice.

If you wash lousy clothing at low temperatures, all you get is cleaner lice.

Queen Elizabeth, in a much-cited quote, faithfully bathed once a month "whether she needs it or no.

The only really reliable way to transfer cold germs is physically by touch.

84 percent of chicken breasts, nearly 70 percent of ground beef, and getting on for half of pork chops contained intestinal E. coli, which is not good news for anything but the coli. *1

In 1954, just one French residence in ten had a shower or bath.

Bathroom is first noted in 1836, though toilet paper, intriguingly, isn't found before 1880.

Two of the victims died. Mary fled but was recaptured and spent the remaining twenty-three years of her life under house arrest on North Brother Island in the East River until her death in 1938. She was personally responsible for at least fifty-three cases of typhoid and three confirmed deaths, but possibly many more. The particular tragedy of it is that she could have spared her unfortunate victims if she had just washed her hands before handling food.

Where everyone stinks, no one stinks.

Atul Gawande has written, "is getting clinicians like me to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands.

New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9 percent of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1 percent? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, Dude, do not mess with Lysol?

New Rule: Bring back a little pubic hair. Not a lot, I'm not talking about reviving that 1973 look that said I'm liberated and I'm smuggling a hedgehog.I just want a friendly, fuzzy calling card that's a middle ground between toddler smooth and Dr. Livingston, I presume? It's supposed to have some hair on it. It's a pussy, not Dr. Evil's cat. Call me old school, but there's a name for a guy who needs it hair-free: He's called a pedophile.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

He knew how to build a bathhouse and heat the stones. True, his father didn't like to wash. Bears, he'd say, live just fine without any baths.