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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You never hear about peanut allergies in Asia, Africa, South America, etc.   It’s clearly linked to the way we live in the US and Western countries.  Too clean, crappy food, too much time indoors.[/quote]

Something still doesn't add up. I lived abroad until the age of 30. No allergies in my family, friends, or anyone I know from back home. My husband grew up abroad too, in the developing world - no allergies. I move to the US and 5 years later my 1st child is born with food allergies. We never adopted the American diet. We cook at home and I buy healthy, mostly organic food. We don't use sanitizer and don't clean with harsh chemical or use fragrances. Kids played outside and were breastfed. So they got allergies just by virtue of geographical location? There's something else at play. Antibiotics play a role. Maybe other chemicals we are all exposed to in the environment or water supply. There's a link with gut health. But it goes beyond individual choices. We did all the right things, short of living on a farm.[/quote]

Food in the US and western countries is probably *too* clean.  My wife is foreign.  When we visit where she's from we will get street food, and I always, always, alllllllways end up paying the price big time and get horrendously sick while she has no problems at all.  My wife has an immune system like a tank.

Even if you don't adopt the western diet while living here, you still have to buy ingredients from western stores. Nearly all of our proteins are steeped in antibiotics. Fruits and veggies at the store are often sterilized by irradiation or ethylene oxide. Meats too are often irradiated. Think about how much bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms it kills off on the surface of foods that out GI system would have to actually work to fight and kill off.

You know how the best wines are made?  The plants are barely given water so they their roots have to dig deep to find water on their own..stressing grape plants creates an overall stronger plant that produces the best grapes because they are challenged with stresses. It's the same with the body whether it is weight lifting or the immune system. We create a bunch of weakling immune systems because we use radiation, antibiotics, and other chemicals to do all of the work out immune systems should be doing naturally that would lead to a build up of a stronger immune system and stronger person overall.  It is a sedentary lifestyle at the molecular level for our immune system, this they get weak.[/quote]

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