This post is a little off the normal Eat’s and Meat’s subjects, but I think it might confirm what I believe for many years.

We are making ourselves sick?

• A segment on Fox news the other day had two doctors talking about the increase of nut allergies in our young people over the years.
• We have problems with drinking the local water when we go abroad and Montezuma’s revenge is the best known example/proof of this statement.
• From what I can see the severity of the food based illnesses is also on the rise. It seems like a case of Salmonella poisoning, which has been around forever, went from a couple of days of diarrhea to a necessary visit to the emergency room.

Are these the results of our strive towards extreme sanitation?

Many “experts” already stated, that using these antibacterial hand soaps are of no beneficial value, even no good for you as they also destroy all the good bacteria we need for our overall health. But after many of these studies you now see antibacterial wipes at many public places and mothers running after their kids with these wipes at the playgrounds.

Now the question is do those wipes actually destroy the bad guys: “The Viruses”?

According to my research the answer is “NO”. See article at ConsumerReports.org if you don’t want to take my word for it.

My opinion is that we have to keep our immune system in tact and fighting.

To give you an example from my experience. Two little neighbor girls, one played in dirt and ate grass, the other one did not like to get dirty and ran home quite often to clean up. Guess what, the girl playing in the dirt and eating grass never got sick and the cleanliness obsessed girl caught every cold coming around.

That brings me to my meat market story.

How things changed over the years.

When I first started working in a meat store we had saw dust on the floors, which made evening clean up very easy. We gave skinless hot dogs to all our customers kid(s) and it quite often happened that these doggies dropped right into the sawdust. Mom took the dog wiped it on their coat and it went right into the kids mouth. By the time we opened our own store, the government (inspectors) outlawed the use of saw dust. The hot dog fell and mom’s request was if we could rinse it. A short water rinse and the hot dog made it back to the kids.

By the time we sold our business the common response to the hot dog drop was: “Don’t you touch it, it is contaminated!!!”. I still wonder how our generation and all the generations before us ever survived long enough to keep the human line alive.
I believe, becoming wimpy all the way we cut down on our chances.

So live your life and hope to survive!