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Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
My kid must be immortal!
And the corollary is... a dirty old man is a healthy old man.
This is why I plan on mounting mirrors and/or cameras on both my cane and my shoetips.
This is why, as an old man, I will take a volunteer job on a college campus somewhere in Florida.
This is why, as an old man, I plan to be a huge supporter of high school sports, standing on the sidelines with my hands in my pockets.
I don't want to die, and if being a dirty old man is what it takes, then so be it.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Because of this, I will continue to not wash my hands, ever.
if god meant us to walk bare foot, he wouldn't have given us feet to put shoes on.
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I have two kids in daycare and I bike to work. (Biking gets mud and puddle water on my face regularly.) I also SCUBA dive, and we don't treat our sewage here. (Primary screening, but no secondary treatment.)
I eat in pubs, work out at the Y, hardly ever wash out my water bottle, and I just licked my keyboard.
Mortal germs can't live in here.
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It is suddenly clear to me: My mother wanted me dead!
George carlin said it best "You know when I wash my hands after I use the bathroom? When I piss or crap on them, which is 2, 3 times a week tops.
I find the more bugs I introduce at the start of the project, the better the users are at dealing with bugs later on...
Unexpect the expected!
...I'd get the flu with hallucinations-inducing fevers.
Really mom! I'm not high! I have a hallucination inducing fever!
Aw, dang it! Now "Death Panel Palin" is going to get up there on TV and tell us how that Evil Old Big Gummint is gonna deny us poor honest Real American folks access to dirt!
Dang that thagomizer, skewing the statistics down.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Perhaps they were trying to get rid of you. Its just a thought.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
So if you lost a limb but survived you would be stronger? But crippled? But a stronger cripple? Naturally the loss of limb would be due to an attempt to jump a shark, an attempt that went horribly, yet hilariously, wrong.
Now wash your hands.
I would expect that this would place a strong selective pressure on immune function. As such, I would think that you would expect the trend to continue in the children of families from such areas and transplanted them into a cleaner culture.
Which sounds like a great argument in favor of mail-order brides - if you want healthy kids, get yourself a dirty woman. Or something like that...
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>> Toast is a bad idea though. As it is nearly pure starch. Meaining it will frag your immune system even further
That's why it's a known fact that as soon as humans invented bread, they died out en masse and the species didn't survive.
Oh wait!
-dZ.
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