Eat Crap: Why Americans should ingest more excrement.

Slate ^ | October 9, 2007 | Kent Sepkowitz

[P8riot]

Now that does make me sick!

You're probably right.

[Ditter]

Carolyn, people have allergies because they have inherited the allergy gene, not because they are too clean. Allergens... germs.... different things.

[doorgunner69]

Rats can eat all the sh!t they want.

Always thought they were sh!t-eaters anyway. We know one of their main constituencies has a morbid interest in the part of each other's anatomy involved with the production.

[hadit2here]

Veronica Moser, pickup brown courtesy phone. Veronica Moser.

[Secret Agent Man]

I just got a new book from a doctor who studies the inflammatory system. For him he is saying the current American diet is too overloaded with foods that cause the body’s immune system to be ‘on’ all the time and this is the root cuase of allergies, and autoimmune diseases.

There’s a certain kind of acid that gets produced by highly processed and refined foods that triggers chemicals that fire up the immune system defenses and trick it into attacking when there really is nothing there to attack - causing inflammation and destruction of body tissues.

[CDHart]

Yes, but good housekeeping means much less dust and allergens floating around also.

Carolyn

[Ditter]

I too ate mud pies, slept with my dog and cat, walked barefoot in the chicken yard, drank unpasteurized milk, skinned my knees and never heard of Neosporin. Don’t think that is the reason you have no allergies. I was a severely allergic asthmatic child and I still count allergies as my one and only health problem and I am 67. My brother is 62 and he is the same.

We inherited our allergies from our parents.

Allergies and auto immune diseases are the result of an ‘over active immune system’ not one from living in a sterile environment.