Mediterranean Living

Is Being Too Clean Killing Us?

My mother was the daughter of a coal miner from the north of England.
One of the things she always used to say was, “As my mother used to say, thicker the dirt, better the man”.
Just a saying, of course, but what was an old wives tale, yet again appears to have a basis in fact.

Mother Nature likes to keep a balance between the good and the bad, she seems to like to offset one against the other. Live and let live.

So while the bad guys in our bodies are trying to harm us, and existing, the good guys trying to protect us, while also existing.

One of the puzzles of health today, is that at a time when the developed countries have never been cleaner, previously unknown diseases are appearing.
Diseases such as hay fever and asthma to diabetes and multiple sclerosis are on the rise, whereas they are relatively unknown in the poorer countries.

Joel Weinstock, the head of gastroenterology and herpetology at Tufts New England Medical Centre, believes we have become just too clean.
Read the article here... http://www.med-liv.com/Medical Update.html

Talking about cleanliness, they say it's next to Godliness, which has very little to do with
little Johnny who boarded a bus and sat down next to this man.
He noticed that the man had a strange kind of collar, so he asked him, "Excuse me sir, but why do you have your shirt collar on backwards?" He was a posh little git!
The man smiled kindly and replied, "I wear this collar because I am a Father."
Little Johnny thought for a second then said, "Sir, I have a father, but he wears his collar the other way around. Why do you wear your collar so differently?"
The priest thought for a moment then said, "I am the father of many."
Little Johnny quickly said, "My father, too, is the father of many. He has four sons, four daughters and many grandchildren. But, he wears his collar like everyone else does. Why do you wear yours backwards?"
The priest, flustered, said impatiently, "I am the Father of hundreds and hundreds of people." Little Johnny sat quietly for a while.
As he got up to leave the bus, he leaned over to the priest and said, "Mister, maybe you should wear your trousers backwards."

Have a good one,
Mike