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The joy of dirt
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- ShabbyDoo 17y ago>and unpasteurised milk My grandparents had a dairy operation, and I don't think I had pasteurized milk at home until age six (when the farm was sold). I don't have any autoimmune issues, so I'm at least a datapoint showing correlation.
- wglb 17y agoA similar article in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984896 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984896.
- herdrick 17y agoContrarian overviews like this are what the Economist does best.
- ars 17y agoPerhaps not washing helped strengthen european immune systems so that the germs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel did their work. If only (mainly?) europeans did not wash, I wonder how that affected their disease resistance compared to other civilizations. Don't really know, just wondering.
- giardini 17y agoAnd don't forget the "dirt vaccine": http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/7892/dirt-vaccine-research http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/7892/dirt-vaccine-resear...