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Why is personal hygiene important?

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Good personal hygiene involves keeping all parts of the external body clean and healthy. It is important for maintaining both physical and mental health. In people with poor personal hygiene, the body provides an ideal environment for germs to grow, leaving it vulnerable to infection.  On a social level, people may avoid a person with poor personal hygiene, which may result in isolation and loneliness. Types of personal hygiene There are many types of personal hygiene. The following list is a good starting point for someone looking to build a personal hygiene routine: Dental Dental hygiene involves more than just having white teeth. A good dental hygiene routine can help prevent issues such as gum disease and cavities. It can also prevent bad breath. Body Several million sweat glands cover the human body. When bacteria break down sweat, the process creates a smell or body odor. Washing the body will help prevent skin irritation, as well as removing the bacteria that cause body odor. Wa
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Effects of Environment Pollution

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What is Pollution? Pollution introduces us to the world of hazardous products. These hazardous materials are called Pollutants. Pollutants, such as volcanic ash, may be normal. Human activity such as garbage or runoff created by factories may also generate them. The quality of air, water and land are impaired by contaminants. Environmental Pollution Environmental pollution occurs when in due course of time, the environment is unable to absorb and neutralize toxic byproducts of human activities (poisonous gas emissions). Types of Environmental Pollution There are different kinds of environmental pollution. The most important environmental pollution is described below: Air Pollution Air pollution is a blend of airborne solid particles and gases. Car pollutants, factory chemicals, dust, pollen and mold spores may be suspended in the form of particles. In cities, ozone, a gas, is a big part of air pollution. It's also called smog as ozone creates air pollution. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen
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The 8 Environmental Factors That Can Impact Your Health

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  A number of specific environmental issues can impede human health and wellness. These issues include chemical pollution, air pollution, climate change, disease-causing microbes, lack of access to health care, poor infrastructure, and poor water quality. 1. Chemical Safety Different chemicals can impact human health in different ways, and often, exposure to dangerous or foreign substances creates health vulnerabilities. The chemical safety field is concerned with minimizing the effects of both natural and synthetic chemicals. More specifically, chemical safety seeks to safeguard human and environmental health from exposure to potential toxins; it focuses on chemicals that exist in the ambient world, as well as synthetic chemicals that are used in industrial processes or are the by-products of manufacturing activity. Public health officials who work in chemical safety often focus on toxicology, which is the study of substances that have a toxic effect on the human body, whether when in
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Emerging and Toxic Inorganic Water Pollutants

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The prestigious journal  Environmental Pollution  is currently running a special issue entitled "  Emerging and Toxic Inorganic Water Pollutants ". As we are acting as guest editors for this issue, we would like to welcome contributions from various disciplines. We kindly invite you to consider submitting your full paper to this special issue. Availability of safe drinking water is a global challenge. Industrialization and anthropogenic activities are the main sources for emerging pollutants detected in drinking water sources. Fate and transport studies suggest close relationship between undesired environmental and health issues with emerging pollutants. Effective treatment and management of these contaminants is an urgent need. This special issue will provide on hot research topics related to environmental pollution including: advances and challenges in different countries regarding the use of treatment methods for emerging and toxic inorganic pollutants removal, monitoring
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Interactions of micro and nano plastics

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Interactions of emerging contaminants on micro(nano) plastics derived from both petrochemical and biodegradable plastics represents a serious threat to ecosystems and human health. Those emerging pollutants include metalloids (As & Sb), heavy metals (Zn, Cd, Hg, Cr, etc.), radioactive elements (radium & uranium), pharmaceuticals, personal care products and pesticides. To date, limited research can be found on generation of secondary micro(nano)plastics from disintegration of plastic objects under environmental conditions and their interactions with hazardous contaminants. Thus, it is crucial to understand mechanisms of physical and chemical interactions between secondary micro(nano) plastics and pollutants in different environmental and biological systems. Such interactions can adversely affect soil microbial structure, nutrient cycles, crop plant growth, food chains, aquatic creatures, and fish farming while directly influencing on global food production, drinking water qualit
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SSL Secure Connection

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 What is an SSL Certificate & Do You Need One?    The e-commerce space is so competitive today that there are literally thousands of parameters on which your business is constantly being judged. But there are two conditions that every business website simply has to comply with in order to survive and succeed. These are quality and cybersecurity.   You can have the fastest and snazziest looking website but if consumers don’t feel reassured about the protection your website is able to provide, you can almost be certain that they won’t shop with you. Hence, ensuring your website connection is digitally secure, and HTTPS-compliant is very important. An  SSL certificate  (HTTP + SSL = HTTPS) is vital for protecting your website against cybercrime and ensuring in-transit customer data safety. What Is An SSL certificate? Every business website that deals with sensitive or financial data like online transactions, submission forms, and login sessions should have an SSL certificate as a must
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What really happened in the SolarWinds cyber-attack?

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  The SolarWinds cyber-attack has been given many adjectives – historic, unprecedented, massive and sophisticated to name a few. What makes this attack unlike any other we’ve seen in recent times is the fact that it was a supply chain attack of indescribable sophistication.  Criminals managed to compromise the update process of SolarWinds’ Orion software. Being a supply-chain attack meant that by infiltrating the network of one service provider (in this case SolarWinds), hackers managed to compromise the systems of all its clients, impacting over 18,000 organizations, including some top tier cybersecurity companies, global giants like Microsoft, Cisco, many US government Agencies, EU institutions and more. In line with its commitment to educate and empower the cybersecurity community with continuous knowledge and thought leadership, Cyber Management Alliance has launched a massive educational campaign on the SolarWinds cyber-attack. As part of this educational campaign, we have created
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