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Our fruitless war on germs
http://www.newsweek.com/id/57368/page/1
Beneficial bacteria have lived with us and on us for millennia -- now doctors and researchers question whether we've done too good a job cleaning up our environment. Are we triggering asthma and allergies in our children and ourselves by shielding them from dirt and scrapes -- or giving them antibiotics for things we can do without medicine? (Such as not giving them cow's milk to eliminate ear injections?) Interesting article expanding on some stuff we've been reading up on.
Beneficial bacteria have lived with us and on us for millennia -- now doctors and researchers question whether we've done too good a job cleaning up our environment. Are we triggering asthma and allergies in our children and ourselves by shielding them from dirt and scrapes -- or giving them antibiotics for things we can do without medicine? (Such as not giving them cow's milk to eliminate ear injections?) Interesting article expanding on some stuff we've been reading up on.