How to Avoid Gym Germs

Wiping clean gym equipment to avoid germs, viruses, bacteria

Fact checked by Derick Wilder   Why do you work out? To stay in shape? Relieve stress? Keep your weight in check? Or simply because you enjoy exercise? While we have different reasons for hitting the gym, one of the overarching goals tends to be getting, and hopefully staying, healthy.  However — and you may be […]

The Bacterial Horror of Hot-Air Hand Dryers

Do hand dryers spread germs? Image of hot air hand dryer on wall in public bathroom

Harvard Health Blog If you’re the kind of person who avoids public bathrooms at all costs, you may feel validated, as well as disturbed, by a study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University. They suspected that hot-air hand dryers in public restrooms might be sucking up bacteria from the air, and […]