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Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study
Reuters ^
| May 4, 2012
| Kerry Grens
Posted on 05/04/2012 10:07:46 PM PDT by neverdem
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http://bit.ly/Kx5841 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online April 16, 2012. "Amish children living in Northern Indiana have a very low prevalence of allergic sensitization" no abstract
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:07:59 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I was raised on an Iowa farm and never had allergies until I moved to the city.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:14:35 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
To: neverdem
"So there's something that we feel is even more protective in the Amish" than in European farming communities.
Yeah, my guess is that the "something" is the fact that those kids are outdoors a lot, playing and working and getting dirty, giving their immune systems plenty to deal with so those immune systems don't go into panic mode any time a peanut gets within 100 yards.
To: neverdem
likely because they drink unpasteurized milk.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:18:48 PM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: neverdem
It’s very obvious, the Amish follow the “three second rule”. And they do it on a Farm...
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:19:04 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
To: neverdem
“Holbreich, an allergist in Indianapolis, has been treating Amish communities in Indiana for two decades, but he noticed that very few Amish actually had any allergies.”
So, how many years did it take Dr. Holbreich to notice that he had no patients?
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:23:19 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: neverdem
They also eat very little commercially processed foods.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:25:51 PM PDT
by
Abby4116
To: neverdem
They're eating and playing in dirt as kids, eating produce typically free of additives or pesticides, eating meat generally free of modification, probably getting stung regularly by insects.
The adaptability of the human body is a remarkable thing.
To: neverdem
I’d wager that suburbia, with its gazillions of non-native plants from all over the world, is a hotbed of unfamiliar pollens.
To: neverdem
300 years of evolution. The Amish don’t have a leisure class.
To: Born to Conserve
Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study
For exactly the same reason that rural African kids (and rural anywhere children) are remarkably immune to allergies (and what a dopey characterization that is): from an early age their immune system receives a remarkable challenge by a wide range of antigens.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:43:13 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: ckilmer
likely because they drink unpasteurized milk.
More likely that their developing immune system is able to get a lot of challenges from a wide range of antigens. I don't know of any African kids from the bush that have ever shown any sort of allergy.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:47:58 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Abby4116
they do like hot dogs tho
http://amishamerica.com/what-do-amish-eat/
it is probably the exercise and raw milk - you can’t say they are sheltered from the outside world of germs (especially if they eat hot dogs)
I think most (like me) are fascinated by the fact that they are self sufficient and peaceful
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:19:55 PM PDT
by
MaryLou1
To: neverdem
There’s one reason. Food additatives and bio-engineering of seeds. Texas A&M grew a maroon carrot and a maroon blue bonnet flower. This crap ain’t normal and it’s changing our systems. I grew up without A/C which meant we slept with the windows open. We didn’t know what allergies were.
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:21:52 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
To: neverdem
Did they compare non-Amish American farm kids to the Amish or the Swiss? That would help.
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:21:52 PM PDT
by
Notwithstanding
(Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
To: ckilmer
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:23:09 PM PDT
by
Notwithstanding
(Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
To: neverdem
And I forgot about bio-engineering of meat, poultry and fish. Before long you can buy your cow fat, lean or extra lean. And you’ll be able to buy your fish with tartar sauce already grown in.
Go to the store and buy some eggs. Some have more omega3 than others. How the hell does that happen? Does the chicken farmer go buy chickens and say “I want some of the omega3 chickens. I know they cost more but I can charge more for the eggs.”
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:26:55 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
To: Abby4116
A lot of you are buying the crapola served up by the food police crowd.
Cook balanced meals from scratch. Not much else to worry about.
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:27:23 PM PDT
by
Notwithstanding
(Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
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To: Notwithstanding
I would also hazard a guess that they don’t have wall to wall carpeting full of decaying detritus and the teeny vermin that feed upon it.
Nor do they live in overheated and overcooled little boxes stacked like cargo containers that are so over insulated in the name of energy efficiency that there is virtually no air movement except that pushed by fan motors through filters that are not cleaned regularly enough.
Bare floors, fresh air and playing in the dirt is a sweet combination for healthy living.
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05/04/2012 11:38:13 PM PDT
by
Valpal1
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