Allergic to Life
Mar 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am by Susie
Years ago, people used to make fun of me for my allergies - that is, the ones who didn’t tell me it was all in my head and treat me as if I simply had a weak character. (I never believed it. I always saw myself as the canary in the coal mine.) Ironic, that so many of those folks now have allergies of their own:
First, asthma cases shot up, along with hay fever and other common allergic reactions, such as eczema. Then, pediatricians started seeing more children with food allergies. Now, experts are increasingly convinced that a suspected jump in lupus, multiple sclerosis and other afflictions caused by misfiring immune systems is real.
Though the data are stronger for some diseases than others, and part of the increase may reflect better diagnoses, experts estimate that many allergies and immune-system diseases have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in the last few decades, depending on the ailment and country. Some studies now indicate that more than half of the U.S. population has at least one allergy.
The cause remains the focus of intense debate and study, but some researchers suspect the concurrent trends all may have a common explanation rooted in aspects of modern living — including the “hygiene hypothesis” that blames growing up in increasingly sterile homes, changes in diet, air pollution, and possibly even obesity and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
One of the cures involves eating parasitic worms. Oh joy.
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One of the cures involves eating parasitic worms. Oh joy.
Didn’t the Victorians eat tapeworms to lose weight?
Amazing, we’ve come so far, medically speaking …. { cue eye roll }
I’m sure the disaster we’ve inflicted on the environment has something to do with the surge in allergies. Humans are acting like parasites on the planet, killing their host slowly. I had an oncologist tell me that everyone should be eating organics: that since the trend toward “healthy” eating (more vegetables and fruits), they’ve started seeing more cancer. He was convinced pesticides are to blame.