Good
news for those of us whose housekeeping skills are, perhaps, a little
less than sparkling – accumulating evidence suggests that eating a
little dirt is actually good for kids. And that annoying tendency of
babies to put every little thing in their mouths may actually be an instinctual attempt to build up their immune systems.
As
someone who hates housecleaning more than anything else in the world,
pretty much, I love the “hygiene hypothesis.” This holds that our
hyper-clean, germophobic society may actually explain why autoimmune
diseases, allergies and asthma have all been on the rise in recent
years.
The theory is that kids who live in super-clean environments
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