[djf]

"I think that part of the problem is that we've gone overboard on making everything "sanitary" - we're crippling our immune systems from disuse."


A few years ago, on Nova???, there was a blurb about a bunch of folks living in a commune... Virginia I think. Once a week, as part of their Wednesday supper, they'd eat a salad of stuff they grew.. a salad with a teaspoonful of garden dirt on it. Results?? Major illnesses were unheard of, and colds, flus, etc were extremely, extremely rare. Their white blood cells probably look like one of the critters in "Aliens"!

[tacticalogic]

Kinda makes you think about why toddlers instinctively want to pick things up off the ground and put them in their mouths, and wheather we're doing them any big favor by stopping them.