Getting enough?????

[texol]

I think the trouble with people today is that we dont eat enough dirt and we all might as well live in bubbles the way things are going, what do you think???

[joggerjayne]

Should we be more like chickens, and hoover up a bit of grit with our food ?

[Prudentia]

As a fully qualified chef I really don't want to eat dirt, talk dirty on an appropriate occasion is a different matter altogether.

[texol]

what im trying to get at is, the more we prevent ourselves from getting minor ailments the more chance we have of getting a major one. Is there a chance we are getting to clean.

[burbie]

I once watched a programme a few years ago called Eat Dirt. It followed different children and their parents attitude to cleanliness.
The heathiest children were those who lived on farms, they came of contact with animals, they breathed in a lot of germs they werent obsessed with cleanliness and disinfectant.
They had the highest immune system of all the children featured because they had been exposed to to more germs from an early age.
You can keep children too clean.
I make sure my grandchildren wash their hands after trips to the toilet or playing in my garden, but they have to be in contact with dirt and germs to allow them to build up a good immune system.

[Ice.Maiden]

Well said burbie. I agree.

[ChuckFickens]

I agree with texol and burbie,

I grow up on and around farms, was always feed fresh food straight out the ground as a child, I have drunk milk taken straight from the milking "bucket" and have probably eaten more than my fair share of dirt.

In fact my childhood would have horrified some of the "bleach everything" parents of today... but I'm now nearly 36 and the only time I can remember ever going to my doctors is when I have physically damaged myself. I can not remember actually being ill other than I slight cold which is no big deal.

Though I do put some of it down to modern attitudes, people will phone in sick for work these days because their little finger aches a little so I "pull a sicky"

[Ice.Maiden]

I grew up on a smallholding as well, and I was a very healthy child, no matter how much dirt I played in - followed by eating sweets with grubby hands!

[Ice.Maiden]

Mwhahaha!!!!! Brilliant stuff!