Dirt is good for you

Submitted by Former NL Member on 26 December, 2006 - 21:01.

2006's final issue of The Week magazine had a one-paragraph story claiming that scientists have learned that kids from "western urban homes" get more allergies and asthma than kids from "rural, third world environments".

With a larger variety of pathogens for the body to react to, the naked Nica kids you see playing in the mud in front of their little wooden shacks may have better immune systems than little Zachary safely ensconced behind the thin wooden traffic gate of Del Boca Vista.

Three cheers for mud!

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I'm fairly certain we can't

Submitted by burtonsnowman on 18 January, 2007 - 23:41.

I'm fairly certain we can't compare the conditions of urban kids in US cities and third-world children.

There are so many variables in the two environments that to pinpoint the root of immune deficiency would be nearly impossible.

Not so sure.

Submitted by Nika Pilot on 28 December, 2006 - 08:39.

Not so sure.

Closed environments of western homes-- jar-tight synthetic insulation with the vapours from all sorts of things, from carpets, to paints, glues, solvents, perfumes, "air fresheners", animal dandruff, etc. . . not so good. Step outside, the air quality in Los Angeles or Dallas may not be so much better.

However, rural third-world environments are no paradise either. How many kids in Santa Ana, California, are de-parasited on a regular basis (as in Nicaragua), or have to worry about dengue, malaria, land-mines and other unexploded ordinances, or similar health risks?

Check out this website for the joys of living in the quiet Laotian countryside: http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4254

maybe

Submitted by traveling man on 28 December, 2006 - 07:16.

its the fresh lol minerals in the dirt. although my wife told me of a man in her barrio that went to the doctor and the doctor told him he was low low on iron and needed to get more. so the man promptly went home and took a couple pieces of his car and went to eating them needless to say he became very ill

tawa tawa ya'll

i thought this

Submitted by Che Guevara on 27 December, 2006 - 10:20.

was going to be a "dirtbag" post. i wonder how that member got his/her name.

I had a horticulture teacher . . .

Submitted by arlington on 27 December, 2006 - 10:06.

I had a horticulture teacher . . . told us "soil" is what you plant in, "dirt" is what perverts read ; )

My 'ole Farmer grandma

Submitted by toms on 27 December, 2006 - 08:48.

Used to say, that all of us, had to eat a "Peck" of dirt before we died.

Perhaps living to clean has weakened the emmuine systems in many folks..

Look at what happened with the spinich thing from a few hog droppings even though the veggetable had been washed many times.

My children here eat things I won't touch with a ten foot pole...

Local cheese, Boli's of who knows where the origin...Stomach's of cast iron I guess...But me I am still a little picky...

Lyin' Farmer John Wayne

Dirt......

Submitted by gordo on 27 December, 2006 - 08:18.

I know a Nicaraguan woman who craved and ate Dirt during her Pregnancy. I thought it was strange but she thought it was perfectly normal and ate Dirt through her whole Pregnancy.....Atlantic Coast Dirt.

Pica

Submitted by Former NL Member on 27 December, 2006 - 09:07.

They say there's some primordial need for minerals and this is how the body satisfies it. Or it's a mental disorder.

Is it the dirt?

Submitted by fyl on 27 December, 2006 - 06:35.

While your immune system needs some "programming", there may be other factors. Check out this article on notmilk.com.

I know of is a local kid with asthma. While milk consumption here is relatively low, his parents want to make sure he eats right and makes sure he "drinks his milk". Yup, advertising sure helps people. :-)

Can this cow make you sick?

Submitted by Bobby on 28 December, 2006 - 03:12.

http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-rawmilk49dec03,0,165...

Pura Nica, Bobby

The sun shines

Submitted by Former NL Member on 28 December, 2006 - 07:31.

People forget. The spray flies as the speedboat glides, People forget. Forget they're hiding. The girls smile, People forget. The snow packs as the skier tracks, People forget. Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front. Eminence front - It's a put-on.

good song.....

Submitted by Che Guevara on 28 December, 2006 - 16:43.

right over my head. does it have to do with "the raw-milk revolution goes under the microscope."

Can't buy that one fyl

Submitted by evets on 27 December, 2006 - 10:07.

Huge amounts of dairy products were traditionally fed to kids (certainly in the UK) - all school children of my generation had to drink their 'school milk'and yet the incidence of asthma is rising even though more misguided folk now drink the pale blue water which passes itself (or is passed as) 'low fat'milk.

Generally, in the country, kids would get more dairy products than in the towns so the incidence of asthma should be the other way round. I'm not convinced about many of today's wonderful crop of allergies, seems like some clever entrepreneurs are at work to me.

I had a friend (both of us doctors) who was allergic to carnations and I witnessed him having a near fatal attack when confronted with a bowl of them in a restaurant.

They turned out to be plastic.

Anyway, mustn't go on any more or the non-Nica relevant Thought Polizei will strike...