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Going Shoeless in Your Home Stops Bacteria in the Environment
Leaving your shoes at the front door isn’t simply a good practice, it’s a way to keep your health and your indoor environment free of dangerous microbes.
Your shoes ARE FILTHY and you wear them INTO YOUR HOME? How many of us thoughtlessly enter our homes after simply wiping our shoes on the doormat, then walking throughout our home and giving no thought to anything other than not tripping on a carpet? Research is now pointing to the seriousness of these fractions in terms of our physical health by engaging in this practice.
While we have seen that those who were raised in non–Western cultures remove their shoes at the doorway, we gave no thought to it other than it was a cultural imperative. Now, the seriousness of this lack of attention to health is rising to the top, and it is truly serious. It's time to change your practices and those of your children immediately. There is no time to be wasted. You may already have affected your indoor environment, and you may need to take extra precautions to rectify the damage that has been done.
On the outside, the normal shoe has 421,000 units of bacteria and on the inside, it has 2,887 units. Researchers have found hundreds of different germs on the bottoms of shoes, such as:
- MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant…
