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Originally posted by Fonz
Our natural resistance has dropped quite a lot over the last decades... damn, our ancestors ate of the floor and look, we're still here. Call me dirty but the people that are the most hygienic get sick more often... and that's a proven fact (I think  )
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lol....We may be here, but our ancestors also had an extremely short life span (47 area), high rate of childhood deaths and a lot shorter in average height. Only good healthy standards could have brought that up to where we are today.
They also used mercury & lead to cure venereal diseases (just saw that on the history channel, lol). With what we know today about that.......scary.
Yes, I do believe our resistance has dropped, not to wards food borne illness, but to everyday flus and colds. Because doctors do over prescribe antibiotics at the slightest thing. Or reltin (sp) to children when they are just being children.
I will suffer a sinus infection for a couple of weeks before going to the doctor. I do not want my body to build up an immunity to the meds I may need farther down the line.
That is why you do not want to over use the sanitizer for hands instead of washing them. It kills all the germs, but it also kills the ones that the body needs to use to defend itself.
Some germs are good and are needed, food borne illnesses caused by bacteria is not.
There is something called common sense and collective society seems to be losing it.