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I grew up in Eastern Europe (born in the early 80s). In my cohort hay fever allergies are extremely rare and food ones are unheard of. In the recent generation
by venomsnake 10y ago
I grew up in Eastern Europe (born in the early 80s). In my cohort hay fever allergies are extremely rare and food ones are unheard of.
In the recent generations there are definitely more of them. EE was notoriously lax with pollution and industrial waste. So I think that toxins are not to be blamed.
The sterility hypothesis seems like a better explanation.
- LionessLover 10y agoThat would depend on the kind of toxins, not just "toxins". Also, nothing works in isolation: Maybe living in the East (I'm from the East too) had other - mitigating - advantages. Whet we are looking at is what to an account would be just the final "net income" number - but behind 10 cents there can be a multibillion dollar business or a teenager who spent most of his/her pocket money. So I don't think it can be decided so easily. Do you think the people thinking about this are not aware of global statistics and did not consider simple explanations?
- babuskov 10y agoI don't know about food allergies, but for hay fever I think the allergies were there before - people weren't educated enough to recognize the symptoms. My father (born in 1948) got fed with anti-biotics for the first 40 years of his life until one day he was lucky enough that a new local physician arrived who had allergy problems himself and changed the therapy. I was born in 1977, and also remember all the anti-biotics injections I got as a child until they finally tested me for allergies at the age of 12. I'd say the majority of medical doctors in this area got aware on allergies in early 90's.
- scotty79 10y agoEE back then had very few cars so probably air pollution wasn't as bad as in modern EE cities.