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Overly Sanitized Environments Lead to Poor Health?
bignickel writes "A recently-released study examined the health implications of living in an overly hygienic environment. According to the 'hygiene hypothesis,' living in such an environment early in life can lead to problems with allergies and autoimmune diseases. The study compared lab rodents with rats and mice living in the wild. Time to stop Lysol-bombing the house?"
If you did, you'd see why I haven't been sick in 15 years.
"In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one, ever. You know why? 'Cause we swam in the East River. We swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems. The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!"
A good reason to give my fiancee for NOT cleaning my house every weekend... I'll tell her it's good for you!
The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong shall take the stars.
Ever notice little kids who eat dirt are healthier looking and tend to be not as scrawny as the kids with clean-freaks for parents. Ever see a toddler allowed to play outside that didnt eat dirt ? They need the bacteria for their digestive system.
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Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
No, that would make her Spider-Woman, and my embryo would split into about a thousand embryos, and she would lay us in sack in the corner until we hatched. Then I would be one of a thousand Spider-Men. Let's see Doc Oc or the Green Goblin fight off THAT.
Everything I say is a lie. Except that... and that... and that, and that, and that, and that... and that.
Reminds me of the Carlin bit:
"The Hudson River was loaded with raw sewage. That's right, we swam in raw sewage. You know, to cool off. And back then the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids every year were dying of polio. But you know what, in my neighborhood, nobody ever got polio. No one. Ever. You know why? BECAUSE WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE. It strengthened our immune system. The polio never had a chance. We were tempered in raw shit.
What are you going to do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit? I'll tell you what you're gonna do. You're gonna get sick and you're gonna die and you're gonna deserve it because you're fuckin' weak and you have a fuckin' weak immune system."
Im nearly immune to the posion ivy/oaks families too. I can see it on my skin if ive been exposed, but they dont itch or bother me. Ill ask my mom if she was ever exposed to poison Ivy while preggers.
if your theory is correct, then I wish I could go back in time and surround my mom with stupid people, because I am deathly allergic to them now.
To think that I've had the 5 second rule backwards all these years... Note to self: let food sit on the floor for more than 5 seconds before picking it up.
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Ever been to a geek's home? Or seen his workspace?
WE knew this all along! That's why we stay healthy during times when about half the company is sick. Like, say, during a football world championship.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yeah, but that's on a terraformed planet with loads of dirt and germs and trees that look just like the woods around Vancouver.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Albert Einstein
Though when you think about it, I think it'd be WORSE to not have indications that you are among such. Better to have the detector than not!
move to new jersey.