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A Little Dirt Won't Hurt: Why Kids Need It
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Pig-Pen’s mom was actually doing her son a favor. The perpetually-filthy Peanuts character may seem like an epic parenting fail, but the authors of a new book say dirt is as essential to children’s health as sunshine. “In our classical training as microbiologists we studied only the microbes that cause diseases and the ways to kill them. Now we acknowledge that we have, for many years, ignored the vast majority of microbes that keep us healthy,” wrote B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta in “Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World.” The authors go on to say that the modern day rush to slather every hand in antibacterial gel is preventing children from building up the blocks of a healthy immune system. Placing children in virtual sterile bubbles instead of exposing them to necessary microbes is causing an explosion in so-called developed country afflictions such as asthma, obesity, diabetes and allergies. Finlay and Arrieta emphasize tha...
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