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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths About Germs: What Everyone Should Know About Bacteria, Viruses, Mold, and Mildewdi Anne E. Maczulak
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They’re everywhere! In water, food, air, and soil. On the kitchen counter and in the bathroom. On our skin, in our intestines, and even swimming in our mouths! They affect us every second of our lives, but most microbes are terribly misunderstood. The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths about Germs does away with the notion that you need a doctorate to understand the microscopic world. Dr. Anne Maczulak addresses all the questions we have about microbes in a fun and informative way. Loaded with myth-busting sidebars, health and sanitation tips, and illustrations of our invisible friends and enemies, this is the one how-to reference every person needs to live a healthy life in our microbial world.While giving readers a primer on the science of microbes, Dr. Maczulak explains: Whether or not the five-Second Rule” really applies when you drop food on the floor The bacterial dangers lurking in the workplace and at home, even in your laundry Surprising facts about household cleaning products What cautions we should take during food preparation What we should do about anthrax Why it may be safer to eat your sandwich in the bathroom than in the kitchen Loaded with informational sidebars and more than 30 illustrations. Includes 25 frequently asked questions about microbes. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Pros: A very thorough introduction written in understandable terms, covers a ton of ground. Glossary, other resources and bibliography included.
Things I learned:
* E. coli resides only in human and animal digestive tracts.
* There are only 6,000 to 10,000 known species of microbes, far less than one percent of the total thought to exist.
* The amount of harmless microbes on Earth vastly out number the dangerous ones.
* Contaminating our water supply would be a very inefficient terrorist attack.
* 70 percent isopropyl alcohol is used because higher amounts (say, 95 percent) evaporates
too quickly to destroy all microbes.
* Mucus is a noun, mucous is an adjective.
* People with tattoos are six times more likely to have hepatitis C
* Regarding the 1918 flu epidemic, the surgeon general said: "If the epidemic continues its mathematical rate of acceleration, civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth within a few weeks."
* 38 percent of people do not know there is no cure for AIDS
* Does the five-second rule work? It depends. Since microbes are all about, one should assume anything dropped will pick up some germs, five seconds is easily enough time for this to happen. Microbes are invisible, so "looking clean" means nothing. Also consider that most microbes are harmless and our immune system is pretty good at fighting stuff off.
Cons: Can read like a textbook and the info comes at the reader non-stop, so the book is best in small doses. The "five-second rule" idea seems like it was tacked on in order to drum up interest (well, this did work on me) as the concept is only mentioned a few times in the book and summed up in a half-page at the end. I found a few little errors: hepatitis C is referred to as HVC and then once as HCV on page 211, the index lists both "Five-Second Rule" and "five-second rule."
Grade: B (