Indeed!
Posted on 01/29/2008 2:51:17 PM PST by Ancient Drive
Working with manure can drastically reduce chances of developing lung cancer, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph. Dairy farmers are five times less likely than the general populace to develop the disease, New Scientist magazine reports. The study found farmers typically breathed in dust that consisted largely of dried manure and all the bacteria that grew in it. New Scientist said adults who had a greater exposure to germs than usual might build up a better resistance to bugs, including cancer. "Some researchers are starting to wonder whether the higher incidence of certain cancers in affluent populations — including breast cancer, lymphoma and melanoma — might also have something to do with sanitized, infection-free living," the researchers said, noting the unexpected links between exposure to dirt and germs and cancer risk. "If they're right, the implications are huge. If we can understand exactly what it is about some germs that has a protective effect, we should be able to reduce people's risk of developing certain tumors later in life by exposing them to harmless microbes."
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Yeah. it’s the poop. Nothing at all to do with clean, natural living, hard work, and garden raised food...
According to this study, Keith Olbermann’s lungs must be spotless.
Without a doubt, I will not die from cancer is this is true. As many times as I have been splattered by cows, calves and/or horses all in the same day, I should live to be 100. Then add in cleaning out the stables, the barn, preg checking and spreading the manure out in the fields I’m safe from that bug.
Maybe I should start stopping at railroad crossings?
Well, beins this site hosts juveniles along with something known as ladies and yes, even gentlemen, you should also use a little elegance and disguise that dirty four letter word as "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeyit!!!"
DUNG!
BTW: I think I might have the abuse link instead of reply. Sorry. Didn't mean it.
Does cat crap count?
Actually, the smell of cow manure and horse manure is rather pleasant, as long as it isn’t TOO strong.
Liquid cow manure, on the other hand, which they spray on the pastures around here before planting corn, is something you want to avoid if you can.
Indeed!
“I should live to be 100”
This is based on global warming not killing you because of the positive effects of breathing cow poo.
I would say that unless you buy more carbon credits from me you’ll not be able to stave off globull warming and die early around 98.
study sounds like bulls**t to me.
>growing up on a farm we milked by hand....guess that is why I’ve never been much of a “titty” man....had more in my hand by the time I was 10 yrs old than most men dream of in 10 lifetimes.....<
There’s a reason for that. LOL If you tried doing to a gal what we did to them cows you would have had your head torn off before you got the first drop of milk out.
How the heck do they keep it lit?
BTTT
I just knew there was something about the derriere.
Would you happen to remember a old Bandini fertilizer commercial, where a guy, in a full ski outfit with skis and poles, is standing on a mound of manure in a dairy?
As he poles down the mound the announcers says:
“Man dares to go, where only cows have gone before.”
What’s brown and sits under the piano?
Beethoven’s Last Movement.
Poo-biotic?
If the Rats take the White House we can drive past and sniff for our health’s sake. The only plus.
LOL - I’ll remind myself when I’m cleaning stalls. It might make me feel better.
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