Re: OT hay fever in the early 1900s

Posted by NC Wayne on June 22, 2006 at 20:28:49 from (152.163.100.74):

In Reply to: OT hay fever in the early 1900s posted by jerry decker in wellsvill on June 22, 2006 at 14:01:03:

I agree with what the other posts are saying about it being around back then. Still I've read several articles over in the past few years where they've done actual studies of different races of people and compaired the different health issues experienced by each. The conclusions drawn, basically, were that in the societies where the people spent more time outside -vs- in air conditioned homes, etc most of the time, their bodies tended to adjust to the outside conditions more readily and health problems like hay fever either didn't exist or at worst weren't nearly as prevelant as they are in the more "civilized" societies. It's the just about the same with so many people nowdays getting sick. Before antibotic soaps, sprays, etc everyone was constantly exposed to small amounts of bacteria allowing our bodies to develope a tollerance or immunity to them except when encountered in amounts larger than the body could handle. Nowdays they even do news articles telling you how dirty the handle going into a store is, the bathrrom door is, etc, etc, etc. Anyway with everything being so clean now most peoples bodies don't have an opportunity to developed a sizable tollerance to "normal" things so they wind up sick when exposed to even the smallest amount of bacteria, or whatever. Think about it, if you go overseas it's still common to see open air markets with the meat hanging out, covered in flys, even in "developed" countries, and those people aren't dying out from disease. America has become a country of clean freaks and it's not as good for us as the docs, insurance companies, government, etc would all like us to believe....Just my .02

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• Re: OT hay fever in the early 1900s Brad in WI 05:39:37 06/23/06 (0)
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