Interesting Information: March 25, 2011
Asthma Rates Soaring
From the following article in “Scientific American” magazine, April 2011, “Why Are Asthma Rates Soaring?” by Veronique Greenwood, pages 32-33:
“Asthma rates have been surging around the globe over the past three decades….”
“A reworking of the hygiene hypothesis that focuses on changes in the normal nondisease-causing bacteria that live inside and on the body (in the intestines or the airways or on the skin) has promise. Studies by [Erika] von Mutius and others have shown that children who live on farms where cows or pigs are raised and where they drink raw milk almost never have asthma, allergic or otherwise. Presumable because the children drank unpasteurized milk and handled livestock, they have different strains of normal bacteria in their airways that are somehow more protective than those found in city kids.”
Erika von Mutius is an epidemiologist at Munich University.
Ha! It all gets back to having good internal beasties, which commercial milk, which is a highly processed fake, dead food, does not supply or enhance. Bet the real ingredient for farm kids not having noticeable asthma rates is NOT handling live stock, but drinking a living, nutrient dense food. And, maybe, not eating a lot of processed foods made of chemical brews, rancid oils, powdered proteins, etc. Or, poisoned foods. Having said that, farm kids living around chemical spraying have high cancer rates…
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