...................Let them Eat Dirt!

So when I was kid back in the 70's, I did not get sick often. I did not get ear infections every week. I did not need tubes implanted in my ears to drain stuff. I had the occasional fever and the occasional cold that everybody gets.

Now, I hear from parents about all these issues they have with their children's health. What happened? Was it global warming? Hormones in our meat? The death of good music? What is causing children to be sick all the time?

Now I am no doctor. I am not even that highly educated. Even so I think the great problem between kids then and kids now is what I call the "Bubble-Boy" syndrome. Back in the day I would go play outside with my friends from post-breakfast time to dusk. Everyone knew to come home when the streetlights came on. That was the rules. I would usually come home in some kind of disarray. Hell, one summer there was construction down the street and my friends and I would spend all day throwing clogs of dirt at each other like grenades from our dirt bunkers. If you have never tried it you are missing out. Go try it!

This dirt would end up in my mouth every time and guess what? I did not get sick. I did not die. I did not go home and have to be scrubbed down by CDC officials HazMat gear on. There were no ANTI-BACTERIAL PRODUCTS in my house except maybe Comet and we were not allowed to eat that.

And now there is. Now our homes are infested with Anti-Bacterial everything. People started sanitizing their homes and consequently children started getting sick. The reason is because as I child immunities are created by being exposed to things. If we never expose babies to dirt then they will never become immune. How many children these days have Allergies, Asthma, and other issues? A LOT. A lot more than before too.

I was just reading how Anti-Bacterial products do not actually clean any better than soap and water. Look it up! They have done studies. It's all a marketing ploy generated by fear. Just wash your hands properly after exposing them to serious contaminants. Stop making your home a sterile hospital environment. Let your babies put things in there mouth. It is a natural urge they have that generates a process which will make them stronger in the long run.

Now Get Kraken!