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Comment by Sharon on June 25, 2008 at 12:18pm

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Hope this finds you doing well.

I was on chat yesterday, asking if anyone knew a natural practioner in San Francisco. Anyone here know?

Comment by Pat Wolf on June 15, 2008 at 9:59pm

To All Women and the Men Who Know and Love Them.

I read this article, and common sense has already told me... "don't do it....". Passing this along. Not intended to gross anyone out. LOL

HANDBAGS...


Have you ever noticed females who sit their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!

It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know will hurt you"!

Read on...

"Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food.
She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been."

It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public
toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?

"I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot, " says one woman. "On the floor of my car, and in toilets."

"I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet, " says another woman "and of course then in my home which should be clean."

We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out to test the average woman's handbag.

Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.

Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.
It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the
microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all
of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.

In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the handbags" says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play
a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without,with one exception.....The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. "Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy.

So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat.

Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.

Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes.

"If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto
your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops" - Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!

Do you really want to bring that home with you?

The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.

Hmmm I am wondering if baby wipes would work. Have a good one everybody. Pat W

Comment by Michael T on June 14, 2008 at 9:40am

Hello ITV Superstars!!!

Comment by Pat Wolf on June 8, 2008 at 10:18pm

SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE RICE SHORTAGE.....The shortage reflects restrictions on exports by major rice producers, notably India, Vietnam and Egypt, followed on Wednesday by Brazil, causing imbalance in world markets. These nations acted to ensure adequate domestic supplies amid rising world prices for preferable varieties of long-grain rice. Drought has contributed to the shortage, as has hoarding, experts say.

By comparison, there is an abundance of medium- and short-grain rice planted in California, the nation's second-largest rice-producing state after Arkansas. California growers will harvest approximately 4 billion pounds this year, with 40 percent of the crop to be exported, the majority to Japan. California's product, consistently among the state's top 20 crops, is known as sticky rice and is used in sushi, paella, risotto, sake, beer, baby food, rice milk and pet food.

Globally, the rice shortage occurring amid sharply rising food prices across the board is having enormous consequences, as rice provides more than one-fifth of all calories humans consume. The shortage has led to food riots around the world, including deaths in Cameroon. Protesters chanting "We're hungry!" caused Haiti to remove its prime minister.

Comment by Pat Wolf on June 8, 2008 at 3:27pm

Hello To All,
Has anyone signed up for Nashville. I just did, and I will be travelling alone, so I hope to meet up with some of you when I get there. I am excited to be taking my first ITV trip. Have a good day.
Hugs, Pat

Comment by Pat Wolf on June 1, 2008 at 10:49am

Hi Everyone,

I woke up late this morning (pacific time) and missed the probiotics talk. If anyone can share some of the key points mentioned please share. Thanks so much.

Have a good day, Pat

Comment by Tarawyn on May 31, 2008 at 10:28pm

IBO Beth H has created another forum for ITV IBOs. It also has product reviews. You can register for free at:
http://itv-products-review-forum.com/iboforum/index.php

Comment by Barbara S on May 31, 2008 at 1:07am

Tarawyn,
I think this is a great idea to join this forum, but I am not sure how to navigate through this site. Can I see everyones conversation like ITV chat?

Comment by Pat Wolf on May 31, 2008 at 12:48am

Help please... I have only one pic of me on my hard drive where I am not with my daughters. How do I get it on the site so I am not a greyed out guy like you see on the left? LOL Hugs, Pat

Comment by Karen O on May 24, 2008 at 5:52pm

Tarawyn..Thanks for creating this! I'll spread the word as best I can without using the chat room! I'll leave that to you! All smiles, Karen O

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