Food: Delicious Eat or Dangerous Germ?

What have scientists been telling us for the past, oh, I don't know... 75 years? "Germs are spread by not keeping your hands clean! Germs are spread from touching infected objects!" What has you mom told you your whole life? "Keep your hands clean, honey, and you'll be healthy!" WRONG!! Yes, keeping hands clean helps, but hands are not actually the root of the problem. Our food is the root of the problem. If you touch something infected, do the germs soak into your skin and get into your blood stream? No. Do the germs crawl up your skin and into you mouth? No. Do germs bit your skin until they get flakes of themselves into you blood stream? No. Germs can't go anywhere or do anything when they are on your skin. Yes, you can get infected by touching your mouth when you your hand has germs. But I'm gonna tell you a little secret. Germs are ALWAYS on your hands. Liquid soap that advertises to kill "99.9% of germs!" is lying. Liquid soap only kills approximately 37.8% of germs. And guess what? That hand towel that you use to dry your hands, it has germs on it. That handle that you push down to have the paper towels come out has germs on it. You hands are infected again the second you touch something else. It is impossible to keep your hands clean forever. Even for a few seconds. It's your food that gives you the most health issues. If you catch strep throat, it is more likely that you caught it from an employee at the McDonalds that you ate at yesterday that was just getting over a case of strep throat, than it is that you caught it from a student sitting next to you in history class that just got over strep throat. Germs live on food much longer than on hands because food isn't touched as much. You are constantly rubbing, bumping, shaking, scrapping, holding, brushing, and doing a million other things with your hands that adds germs and takes away germs. But food, if touched by germs, is soft. The germs can seep, creep, thrive, multiply on food. The climates that food is kept in helps the germs multiply and move. The fact that the apple you ate after school sat in a Wal-Mart's food bin for about 3 weeks with little kids and adults picking it up and throwing it down and ect... means that that apple probably has more germs on it than your pillow or your hair. Food germs infect you more easily than air-borne or hand germs. Food is more lethal than anyone ever guesses. But the truth: Food = Dangerous. Your hands = not so much.