Posted on 12/31/2018 2:46:58 AM PST by Daffynition
Mel Greaves has a simple goal in life. He is trying to create a yoghurt-like drink that would stop children from developing leukaemia.
The idea might seem eccentric; cancers are not usually defeated so simply. However, Professor Greaves is confident and, given his experience in the field, his ideas are being taken seriously by other cancer researchers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
HW’s daughter (W’s sister) was diagnosed with ALL back in the 50s. They didn’t have super clean homes then, so why did she get it ?
No problem with my home; messy and ready to confront all sorts of microbes to prime their systems.
Hmm, breastfeeding and vaginal birth also colonize babies with a bunch of stuff that non-breastfed and caesarian-birth babies do not get.
Kids need to play outside in the dirt most of the day - being indoors does not work. That’s where the bacteria live ... hell we ate dirt sometimes just on a dare ...we built underground forts and lived in them for hours a day - not to mention tree houses and other sorts of kid contrived forts.
From the article there is a preventative already. It’ll called Lee your kids get dirty.... expose them to the real world
Luck of the draw. In the fifties some girls were raised in pristine conditions. The boys may have gotten dirty but the little princess not allowed
Clean Home was the same theory about the outbreak of polio back in the day.
[[In other words, us old guys got more bacteria exposure younger because we lived in old dusty houses with lead paint and coal fired furnaces, drank raw milk and generally played in outside most of our childhood.]]
Thank goodness for Tonka trucks on the dirt pile in my backyard. Spent hours at it.
Having pets helps too. We grew up on a farm in TN with cows, horses, chickens, dogs, cats, ducks.....well, you get the idea. We also played outside and the first part of our childhood was spent in Florida swimming in canals, riding bikes, and being nasty dirty kids. We have all been healthy.
I don’t remember any of my friends having peanut allergies. We lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I'm not certain that it that easy. My children lived the first seven years of their lives in houses that were over 80 years old. Got so dirty they had to get hit by a water hose before they could come inside. Had pets that lived outside. Played sports and my rail thin son still got type 1 diabetes.
One theory put forth, is that the mothers were all well fed when they were pregnant, so the mothers and fetuses were never under stress. Hard to prove and the solution may not be tenable.
“hell we ate dirt sometimes “
IIRC, mud pies were deeelicious!
Yeah I forgot pets - we have ducks, bunnies, cats n’ dogs. Got lots of poison Ivy until we made a fort that my kid neighbor’s grandpa found us in and kicked us out - was fort made of poison ivy, poison sumac and poison oak vines - the stuff never bothered me again. Same for the time I got massively stung by some ground bees
Histamines - loved to tun through the stinging nettles when I lived in the PacNW woods 50 years later. Ate lots of Oregon Grape leaves in season picked off the plant as I walked in the woods - same for various berries - washed? are you kidding? Ruins them. If the bears can so can I.
Girls and their pies ...ugh. We boys just ate a kid finger sized bit ...
Sounds like you had a great childhood too.
We were preachers kids and were in church four or five times a week starting before we were a week old. Members who had new babies and very young children would keep them home “so they didn’t catch anything”; they basically were bubble wrapped.
Those kids grew up being sick ALL the time; we almost never caught anything. If we did, it was mild, and we’re still pretty healthy in that regard. In our golden years there are bone issues and things like that, but not “bugs”.
Even after we got a TV about ‘48-49 we still played outside all the time. Nowadays kids spend most of their time inside in front of a TV or monitor of phone screen.
Imagination? Wonder? Phuff ... they’ve got movies from Hollywood to do both for them - no need to develop their own.
Wish I still had my fleet of Tonka trucks from the 60s. Plastic windshields and such, and rubber tires, otherwise all steel.
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