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CRAIG ANDREW-KABILAFKAS: This article made me barf
I’m usually immune to many of the crazy notions that appear in FSnet, but having been touched by the recent and tragic Pseudomonas aeruginosa-linked death of Brazilian model Mariana Bridi, reading...
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CHUCK DODD: Eating dirt can be bad for you
New York Times journalist Jane Brody suggests that eating dirt is an instinctive behavior in humans. In her article, Eating dirt can be good for you – just ask babies, she interviewed researchers who...
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Local food is not inherently safer food
The idea that food grown and consumed locally is somehow safer than other food, either because it contacts fewer hands or any outbreaks would be contained, is the product of wishful thinking. Barry...
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Food allergies linked to hygiene hypothesis? ‘If fewer allergies is more...
People from well-educated families are almost twice as likely to suffer from some dangerous food allergies as others — possibly because their bodies’ natural defences have been lowered by rigorous...
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If the hygiene hypothesis is real, does it matter?
The most frequently asked question with public and scientific crowds at any food safety jamfest I’ve done over the past 20 years: Is food too clean? It comes from that adage, what doesn’t kill you...
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Failings with the hygiene hypothesis
My mother contracted undulant fever as a child in the 1940s. My grandfather, to his credit, promptly got rid of the dairy cows, and went into potatoes, and then became the asparagus baron of Canada....
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Picking your nose and eating it may be good for you
It is called barfblog, and anyone with kids knows they do gross things. So do the adults. I’ve known people who picked their nose and subtely ate it, but we all saw. The four-year-old daughter also...
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Hygiene hypothesis; we really don’t know much;on a recent episode of the TVO current affairs show “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” explores the topic of “Our Relationship with Cleanliness” – an...
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Nosestretcher alert: Invite some germs to dinner
When Michael Pollan endorses an article, I know it’s BS. So it is with Kate Murphy’s piece in the New York Times on Sunday, that says the U.S. food supply is “arguably the safest in the world” and asks...
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BS: Less disinfectant, more Rioja
Tal Abbary, a freelance writer writes in the quickly diminishing N.Y. Times that she recently moved back to South Florida after seven years in Spain, where supermarket shelves are curiously empty of...
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Hygiene hypothesis variation: The parasite underground
Vik was in his late 20s, blood started appearing in his stool. He found himself rushing to the bathroom as many as nine times a day, and he quit his job at a software company. He received a diagnosis...
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CHUCK DODD: Eating dirt can be bad for you
New York Times journalist Jane Brody suggests that eating dirt is an instinctive behavior in humans. In her article, Eating dirt can be good for you – just ask babies, she interviewed researchers who...
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Local food is not inherently safer food
The idea that food grown and consumed locally is somehow safer than other food, either because it contacts fewer hands or any outbreaks would be contained, is the product of wishful thinking. Barry...
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Food allergies linked to hygiene hypothesis? ‘If fewer allergies is more...
People from well-educated families are almost twice as likely to suffer from some dangerous food allergies as others — possibly because their bodies’ natural defences have been lowered by rigorous...
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If the hygiene hypothesis is real, does it matter?
The most frequently asked question with public and scientific crowds at any food safety jamfest I’ve done over the past 20 years: Is food too clean? It comes from that adage, what doesn’t kill you...
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Telling people there’s no risk is irresponsible
There’s some dumb stuff in this interview with author Jack Gilbert (who wrote, Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child’s Developing Immune System) about eating dirt and the hygiene...
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Local food is not inherently safer food
The idea that food grown and consumed locally is somehow safer than other food, either because it contacts fewer hands or any outbreaks would be contained, is the product of wishful thinking. Barry...
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Food allergies linked to hygiene hypothesis? ‘If fewer allergies is more...
People from well-educated families are almost twice as likely to suffer from some dangerous food allergies as others — possibly because their bodies’ natural defences have been lowered by rigorous...
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If the hygiene hypothesis is real, does it matter?
The most frequently asked question with public and scientific crowds at any food safety jamfest I’ve done over the past 20 years: Is food too clean? It comes from that adage, what doesn’t kill you...
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