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Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study

For exactly the same reason that rural African kids (and rural anywhere children) are remarkably immune to allergies (and what a dopey characterization that is): from an early age their immune system receives a remarkable challenge by a wide range of antigens.
11 posted on 05/04/2012 10:43:13 PM PDT by aruanan
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from an early age their immune system receives a remarkable challenge by a wide range of antigens.

Human beings are not designed to live in sterile environments for extended periods of time. This seems to really shock some folks.

66 posted on 05/05/2012 5:56:16 AM PDT by Poison Pill (Obama is the hopium of the masses)
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