Mark Wadsworth: ... although not necessarily in that order.

Friday, 4 January 2013

Bayard said...: The problem is, we all lead lives that are too clean. There is scientific evidence to show that auto-immune diseases like asthma are at least partly caused by lack of exposure to germs, parasites etc. It does seem obvious that, if you don't use your immune system, it gets weak, which is why so many people get ill when they go abroad. It's not that "abroad" is necessarily dirty, but that our immune systems are exposed to strains of germs outside the small set that they are used to. However, as can be seen from the last post, health has become a religion, with everybody telling us what to think and do and nobody telling us how to make out own decisions on cleanliness and nutrition, or giving us the information to do so. (There should be a name for a scenario where a few people end up making lots of money out of an extraordinary popular delusion (TM Charles MacKay) and the whole thing gets completely rooted in the public consciousness, homeownerism being another good example.); 5 January 2013 at 13:36
Anonymous said...: Isn't that ...."necessarily not in that order"!; 7 January 2013 at 00:12

Friday, 4 January 2013