The Everything Guide to Coping with Perfectionism by Ellen Bowers

Author:Ellen Bowers [Bowers, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781440551826
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2012-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Don’t Germs Cause Illness?

According to the Mayo Clinic, germs are another name for bacteria, of which only 1 percent are harmful. Bacteria are in the human body all the time, and most of them are beneficial to the bodily processes. How then did germs get such bad press? Health education in elementary schools stresses the scary, negative aspects of germs, and children think of them as something like cooties, that you want to avoid at all costs. The importance of these little microbes gets blown out of proportion, and perhaps an obsessive hand-washing habit ensues.

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