Re: Allergies in modern urbanized people or a "In a healthy body a healthy spirit"

In article <1152439014.913710.196700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tentimes5@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
If anybody have read a book "Guns Germs And Steel", you probably
remember, that one of the main ideas is that development of agriculture
and particularly, the breeding of cows, pigs, chicken, oat and other
domesticated animals (altogether I beleive is just 14???) had made the
biggest effect on development of human society and specially on why
some cultures are technologically advanced ans some are not.

It also explains defeat and almost extinction of American Indians
mostly not because of the power of the gun but because of the lack of
the immunity to deseases initially known to be in animals, but later
transmitted to humans.

So, being close to animals and specially livestock should have strong
correlation with allergies experienced by modern urbanized people.

There is just no way, that animals that have lived real close to people
for good last 20,000 years of human history and now are not anymore, do
not affect very strongly lives and health of humans.

Also, you do not have to go so far for research, but just talk to older
folks and they will tell you how good it is to send a child for at
least couple of months to live on a farm and get away from stinking
city.

Or see how kids living on the farm today when coming to study and stay
in the city colledge by 2-3rd year obviously outperform their city
collegues.

Interesting assertion. Do you have evidence? My experience is quite
the opposite: a much larger proportion of rural students flunk out in
the first few years for a variety of reasons, both academic and
social. This leaves only the truly excellent few, who of course
place highly in tests etc.

Or see how children immigrants studying in US colleges
posess so obvious and unique quality to work so hard?

Again, this is a highly simplified and misleading representation of
the facts. In reality, "immigrant" students (I'm assuming you mean
students who are the children of immigrants and who had most of their
public schooling in their home country) perform no differently than
local students, with the same range from abyssmal to excellent.
"Immigrant" students are typically highly visible among their peers,
however, and so stand out when they are doing well.

Would not you relate it to health also?

What do you mean?


There is an old Roman expression. I am not sure if my translation to
English is correct, but it is : "In a healthy body a healthy spirit"



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