by Jane Brody, NY Times, August 3, 2010
"When you go to the gym, do you wash your hands before and after using the equipment? Bring your own regularly cleaned mat for floor exercises? Shower with antibacterial soap and put on clean clothes immediately after your workout? Use only your own towels, razors, bar soap, water bottles?"
In these days when so many of us exercise in gyms outside of our homes there is risk of acquiring skin infections. Jane Brody's column "Be Sure Exercise Is All You Get at the Gym" is well-worth reading as it gives good advice on how to avoid many of these problems.
