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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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To: goodwithagun

Snake oil has always sold well in a free market. So do lottery tickets. So do the scams sold on late night infomercials.

The free market is wonderful opportunity to sell sorts of things - including snake oil and chirquacktic to gullible people searching for a solution to what ails them. Gimmicks work. Just look at all the stuff that gets bought because its “free” or “up to 50% off and more” or “guaranteed”.


82 posted on 05/05/2012 9:22:37 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
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To: Abby4116

Yes.

However, you posted that they ate little processed food. I gathered your point was addressed to allergies.

They do eat processed food. I added the other points because they were, IMO, germane to the idea that Amish live isolated from our culture. They do not, and I refer to my neighbors, who are Old Order, known locally as Shoeless Amish.

Subsequent posts referenced raw milk and other ideas. I added the raw egg information, because , again, IMO, it points out that even Amish-raised eggs, like milk, can carry disease.

Sorry if I strayed from post guidelines.


83 posted on 05/05/2012 9:24:34 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: flintsilver7

This peanut allergy thing, real or imagined, is not confined to this country. My wife has a nephew who lives in Scotland who has it. But I think you might be on to something as far as misdiagnosing these allergies. Similar to the mania for giving every kid , usually a boy, who can’t still still in the classroom a dose of Ritalin. Weird.


84 posted on 05/05/2012 11:00:12 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Notwithstanding

Keep stirring the crap around.


85 posted on 05/05/2012 11:00:30 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Scotswife
unpasteurized milk has been redefined by th EPA as illegal contraband

Isn't it also a pollutant since it has oil (fat) in it? If there's a milk spill, don't they call out the oil cleanup people?

86 posted on 05/05/2012 11:00:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Scotswife

epa-classifies-milk-as-pollutant

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/epa-classifies-milk-as-pollutant


87 posted on 05/05/2012 11:02:30 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

sadly...I don’t find that surprising.
sigh


88 posted on 05/05/2012 11:23:11 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
Salmonella in dog food sickens 14 people in US

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--snip--

The recall covers a number of pet food brands made at the Gaston plant, including Canidae, Natural Balance, Apex, Kirkland, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul, Country Value, Diamond, Diamond Naturals, Premium Edge, Professional, 4Health and Taste of the Wild.

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89 posted on 05/05/2012 1:34:46 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Notwithstanding

Motion to strike. Cumulative.


90 posted on 05/05/2012 2:29:22 PM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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To: driftless2

They do that too - apparently being a boy is now some sort of illness.

As far as the peanut allergies go, they apparently do tests that cannot differentiate between an allergy to birch pollen (which is very common and not life-threatening) and an ingested peanut allergy. What’s worse, peanut allergies vary in severity and you can’t actually diagnose a life-threatening peanut allergy without feeding them peanuts.


91 posted on 05/05/2012 3:58:05 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: goodwithagun

It’s the raw milk farmers who stir crap around, LOL.


92 posted on 05/05/2012 4:09:01 PM PDT by Notwithstanding (Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
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To: Notwithstanding

You said that about 3 1/2 hours ago.


93 posted on 05/05/2012 4:33:55 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Scotswife

Engaging in the production and sale of this dangerous substance has prompted the FBI to conduct undercover sting operations against these amish criminals!
...........
so do you think the amish or the FBI is criminal


94 posted on 05/06/2012 7:47:31 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

The amish criminal? LOL.


95 posted on 05/06/2012 8:29:12 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: neverdem
I am not Amish but I grew up in much the same way. We had a cow, chickens, horse, dogs and cats. This was all in what is now central Houston but then it was out in the country. I drank unpasteurized milk and we had our own eggs and killed our own chickens. This was before air conditioning and we went barefoot all summer, also like Amish children.

Both my brother and I had terrible allergies(still do) and severe asthma. So much for fitting into this study.

96 posted on 05/07/2012 5:14:50 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: neverdem

Hormesis - the deadly enemy to a liberal’s perfect world.


97 posted on 05/07/2012 10:43:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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