[ichabod1]

Just show me the RCTs and the peer reviewed studies on that and I’ll be happy to buy it. But I’m betting kids roll around in the dirt among the relatively wealthy just like we did when I was a kid, all concerns about the coddling of children today aside.

[aruanan]

But I’m betting kids roll around in the dirt among the relatively wealthy just like we did when I was a kid, all concerns about the coddling of children today aside.

I haven't seen any kids over the past few decades get as dirty as I and my brother got during the years we lived in the country, handling many different live and dead amphibians, mammals, birds, insects, and reptiles, smoking all sorts of strange plants, getting cuts, burns, stings, swimming in ponds, lakes, creeks, throwing dirt bombs, etc.. Interestingly, in my Nutrition Through the Life Cycle class it was proposed that one possible reason for the disproportional rates of osteoporosis between women and men up to this point is that during childhood bone growth, boys spent a lot more time outside with a lot more skin exposed to UV resulting in increased amounts of vitamin D compared to girls and increased bone density.