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None of us likes to change a habit. But once it is changed you are back to an automatic way of doing something. By selecting wise habits your improved lifestyle pays you back for the rest of your life.

Living Hand To Mouth

Hands do everything. They pick up things from the floor.

They handle money. They touch other peoples' hands. They clean up bottoms. They touch all kinds of door knobs. And then they pick up food to eat. Some people even lick their fingers when they're sticky or just to turn a page!

What is on the hands that you don't want to eat but can't see? Bacteria and viruses from coughing and sneezing into your hands! And cysts! Cysts are the “eggs” made by parasites. Cysts are so tough not even bleach kills them. They hide under our fingernails when we wash our hands. Then we eat them along with our food. This is called oral-fecal route. They hatch in the stomach and go to the intestine to live.

To stop reinfecting yourself the little cysts under the nails need to be killed. Food grade alcohol solution kills them. Buy

EverclearTM or Protec (potable) alcohol and make a 5% solution (add ¼ cup of 95% alcohol to a quart of water). Keep it in a small pump bottle at the sink. After using the bathroom and washing your hands, treat your fingernails with alcohol. Pump alcohol into one palm. Put the fingernails of the other hand into

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it. Scratch a bit. Pour it into the other palm and do the remaining fingernails. Rinse.

•Don't eat with your hands! Use a fork.

•Never eat food off the floor!

•Always wash hands after petting an animal!

•Never touch the bottoms of shoes! Keep shoes off couch or bed or chair.

•Always cough or sneeze into your clothing or a tissue, not your hands.

•Keep your fingers out of your mouth. Don't lick your fingers to turn pages or open plastic bags.

Sick persons need a 50% alcohol solution. Add ½cup 95% alcohol to ½cup cold tap water or buy plain vodka, 80 to 100 proof. Pour the vodka into the pump bottle. Be careful that nobody tries drinking it. If there are teenagers in the house, add a hefty dose of cayenne to it.

Lugol’s iodine will also sterilize your hands. However most commercial Lugol’s is polluted with isopropyl alcohol. Ask your pharmacist to make it from scratch for you (there are only two ingredients and water, see Recipes). Then make a solution to wash in (1 tsp. to a quart of water). This can stain some things. Do not use “tincture of iodine.”

Better Laundry Habits

Boil your underwear. In long-ago days, all sheets, towels, table cloths, and underwear were separated and boiled.

With the convenience of our electric washing machine, we tend to overlook the fact that underwear is always contaminated by fecal matter and urogenital secretions and excretions. Mixing these with socks and towels and dishcloths is all right if you are

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going to kill everything anyway. But if you don't kill them, as in cold water washes, you are mixing the yeast, parasite eggs, bacterial spores, and fungus from underwear with all the other clothing you and your family wear. An enlightened system would be to add an antiseptic to the wash or rinse cycle. Lime water (calcium hydroxide) or iodine based antiseptics seem obviously simple methods to accomplish this. In the absence of this protection, use dryer heat to do your sterilizing. Underwear should be dried until too hot to handle.

Bleach can kill a lot, but doesn't kill Giardia spores and a lot of types of fungus. Don't rely on bleaching. Besides, your skin absorbs it from clothing, it is quite toxic to you, and can cause mental effects.

Commercial detergents are polluted with PCBs and have cobalt added. Both of these are easily picked up through your skin. Use washing soda and borax in the wash cycle. They do not clean quite as well as modern detergents, but there is less static cling, eliminating the need to put more chemicals in your dryer. For spot removal use homemade bar soap.

Better Kitchen Habits

Once a day, sterilize the sponge or cloth you use to wipe up the table, counter tops and sink. This little piece of contaminated cloth is the most infectious thing in the house, besides the toilet. It's more dangerous than the toilet because you do not suspect it. Sometimes it has a slight odor at first, which may warn you, but most pathogens do not have an odor! As we wipe up droplets of milk, we give the milk bacteria, Salmonellas and Shigellas, a new home to multiply and thrive in. We add crumbs, picking up molds this way. We add dust, picking up parasite eggs and stages. They all feed on the milk and food residue.

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As the counter and table and stove get wiped “clean” a film of contamination is left everywhere. A few varieties may die but most of them don't. The general moisture in the kitchen is enough for them to survive. The cloth or sponge recolonizes the kitchen and dining room table several times a day.

No doubt, the last thing you do before leaving the kitchen is squeeze it dry with your hands. Now all the pathogens are on your hands!

Where do your fingers go? To your mouth to remove a hull or bit of something from your teeth. Or to eat a last bite of something. Or to turn a page of the telephone directory. You have just eaten a culture sampling from your own kitchen sponge. In two hours they are already multiplying in the greatest culture system of all: your body! You have given yourself your next sore throat, or cold or headache. The worst possible habit is to wipe a child's face and hands with the kitchen cloth. Or to have a handy towel hanging from the refrigerator handle.

To sterilize the sponge: drop it into a 50% solution of grain alcohol at the end of each day. Keep a wide mouth glass quart jar handy just for this. Keep the jar tightly closed and out of the reach of children. Dunk your sponge and plop it onto the sink. If you stand it on end in the sink it will partly dry overnight.

Another way to sterilize the sponge or cloth is to microwave it, after wetting it, for 3 minutes. Any shorter time simply warms and cultures the pathogens and multiplies them. Or boil the cloth like our grandparents did. Drying out the dish cloth helps kill many–but not all–pathogens. It takes three days of drying to kill all! Another strategy is to use a fresh cloth or sponge each day, putting the used one to dry until laundry day.

During the day, set the sponge on end to start drying and slow down culturing.

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Don't eat food directly off the counter top or table top.

You wouldn't slice a tomato or egg directly on the counter top. It would pick up something: some little particle of dust or dirt. Treat bread the same way. Always on a new clean surface, such as a plate. The counter and table top have on them whatever is in the kitchen dust and on the wipe cloth. Dust is always falling!

And the sponge is always culturing. Don't eat the dust!

Keep the cutting board sterile like dishes. Wash it the same way and keep it in the cupboard.

Keep food containers closed. Milk or water glasses are picking up dust as soon as you set them out. Dust is everywhere.

Every step on the carpet sends up a puff of dust. Vacuuming sends up a hurricane of dust and distributes bathroom dust to the kitchen and kitchen dust to the bedrooms. So if one person has brought in a new infection, the whole family is exposed to it in hours via the dust.

It is very helpful not to eat the new infectious pathogen.

Breathing it is not so damaging. Our noses collect such pathogens and we blow them out again. Touching the infected person is not very damaging either; the pathogens can't get through our skins and since we wash hands before eating we are not at great risk of infection this way. But eating the pathogen is 100% effective in infecting us. The new pathogen is in the dust. The newly contaminated dust drops into your ready and waiting glasses on the table and the open foods. Of course, there is no defense if somebody should cough or sneeze at the table.

Teach children to cough and sneeze into a suitable collecting place like a tissue, not their hands. Pathogens live bountifully on hands. Hands not only provide moisture but often food from the last meal. Hands are second only to the dish cloth in contamination level. If you must cough or sneeze and a tissue is not within reach fast enough, use your clothing! That's what clothing is for—to protect you. Cough and sneeze into your own clothing; this protects the cougher and sneezer, as well as eve-

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rybody else. A sleeve is handy for children. The inside of your

T-shirt for T-shirt wearers. The inside of coat for suited persons. The inside of the neck line for dresses. Of course, paper is best, but in emergency use cloth. Never, never your hands unless you are free to immediately dash into the washroom and clean the contamination off your hands.

Teach children this old rearranged verse:

If you cough or sneeze or sniff

Grab a tissue, quick-quick-quick!

And if you're sitting at the table

Do it in your sleeve if able.

Better Housekeeping

Throw out as much of the wall to wall carpeting as you can bear to part with. It is injurious to everyone's health, even though it's comforting to bare feet and looks pretty.

Carpets clean our shoes. Modern shoes, with their deep treads, bring in huge amounts of outdoor filth which settles deep down into the carpets. In spite of vacuuming every week, the filth accumulates.

Vacuum the carpets when the children, the sick and elderly are out of the house. The dust raised and distributed throughout the house isn't just dirt, it's infectious dirt. It lands on tables and counters. These get wiped with a cloth or sponge and then applied to dishes. The dust in the kitchen falls on open food and into open containers.

Clean carpets with a “steam cleaner”. When you see how much filth is in the water and realize how much dirt you were living with, you might be willing to trade in the “beauty” of carpets for the cleaner living of smooth floors. Don't add chemicals (commercial cleaning solutions) to the steam cleaning machine; these chemicals leave a residue in the carpet which dries

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and flies up into the air to add to the dust. Popular stain resistance treatments contain arsenic. Cobalt, which adds “lustre” to carpets, causes skin and heart disease after it has built up in your organs. Use borax instead of detergent. Use boric acid to leave a residue that kills roaches and fleas (but not ants). Add vinegar that leaves a residue to repel ants. Nothing controls fleas reliably, except getting rid of the carpets and cloth furniture

(keep pets out of bedrooms). Removing all the borax is what brings luster to the carpet. Use citric acid in the rinse water for this purpose. Adding lemon peel to the rinse also adds luster and ant deterrence. Just drop the whole lemon in the tank so it can't block the hoses.

Fleas and other vermin in the carpet simply crawl below the wetness level when you wash the carpet. Spraying a grain alcohol solution with lemon peel in it (it needs to extract for a half hour) on the damp carpet will reach and kill a lot of these, together with the residual bacteria. The damp carpet lets it spread evenly and reach all the crevices.

We are trapped in our dwellings. Primitive peoples were mobile. This got them away from accumulations of filth and rubbish in their living space. Much living was done outdoors, the cleanest space of all.

Now, air conditioning has made indoor living more comfortable. But also has added new hazards. The strong currents of air blow the dust about continuously. Molds and bacteria that grow right on the air conditioning unit get blown about for all to inhale. Never, never use fiberglass as a filter or to insulate your air conditioner around the sides. It is a carcinogen. And the danger of freon escaping from a tiny leak is another major health hazard.

Forced air heating systems are undesirable, too. All dirt brought into the house by shoes gets circulated throughout the house by forced air systems of heating or cooling. Old fashioned radiant heat from radiators or a stove did not distribute the

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dust so effectively. A return to linoleum floor covering for kitchen and bathroom and hardwood for other rooms would be a good step of progress for a health conscious society. Mopping, instead of the vacuum cleaner, keeps dirt to a minimum. Throw rugs at doors and bedside, easy to clean, would “catch the dirt” as was the original intention. Carpets were intended to help keep filth out of the air. These smaller rugs should be laundered weekly.

Furniture should be wood, cane, or plastic, with cushions to soften the impact. These can be washed weekly if the covers are removable. Modern cloth furniture with its foam interior is a repository of filth and fumes and a constant source of infectious dust.

This old fashioned setting is more progressive than our carpeted, modern homes.

Fig. 56 Smooth floors allow every bit of dust to be removed.

Dust your furniture with a damp paper towel. You are picking up and removing highly infectious filth (Ascaris and pinworm eggs, pet parasites, “dander” and house mites). Instead of

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distributing these from room to room, throw the paper towel away after each room is done. Use plain water or vinegar water (50%), not a chemical combination which further pollutes the air.

Clean windows with vinegar water, too. Use a spray bottle. Keep your dishes in cupboards. This keeps them free of dust.

This principle is ancient. It is tempting to leave some of them out. If you must keep the juicer or dishes outside of cupboards, keep them covered or placed upside down so they don't catch dust.

Even inside cupboards, store them upside down. When using the “good” dishes or glasses, that haven't been used in a while, wash them first.

Windows Open Or Closed?

In places like Chicago where you can smell the air as you approach the city, it is wiser to keep your windows shut. You can't breath the industrial “soup” all day and night and expect to stay healthy. Of course, it all enters the houses anyway. Central air conditioning and a plain carbon filter at the furnace location

(see Sources) may be the best solution in spite of blowing dust around the house. Keep the vents to the bedrooms closed to reduce the air turbulence there but leave the cold air return open.

Clean the vents in other rooms each week along with floors and carpets by pulling up the grating and reaching down the passage as far as possible.

If you believe the air is free of highway exhaust and industrial smoke open the windows every day. This will let some of the indoor toxins blow away. Asbestos, fiberglass, freon, radon and plain dust can be reduced to a minimum by keeping windows open. If you are ill, sit outdoors (on the porch) as much as you can. Escape to a suitable climate that makes this possible.

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Just a few decades ago, many people had summer living quarters that were different from winter living quarters. Gone was all the accumulated infectious dust of half a year of habitation.

Fig. 57 Moving into the summer kitchen got you away from the accumulation of filth from winter!

Don't have a basement where you stockpile toxic items. Basements invite mold, mice and radon besides toxic things.

Fumes travel upward where you live! Keep your toxic things in the attic. If there is no attic, store them in the utility room. Close off the ventilation between utility room and the rest of your house. If you have none of these, perhaps because you live in a senior citizen community or condominium, don't keep any toxic things stored anywhere. Don't save any leftover paints, solvents or cleaners. Buy such small quantities that you can afford to throw it all away when you are done with them.

Live on top of the earth as was intended by nature.

Never have a basement room “finished” for actual living space. Don't buy a house that has a “lower level” built into the

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