The modern world also suffers from too much hygiene. To build a strong immune system, children need to get down and dirty. Go barefoot, step on rusty nails, get a good dose of parasites (and I don’t mean GimmeCrats).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

“In 2008, Gideon Lack of King’s College London published a startling study comparing the rate of peanut allergies in children in London with that of children in Tel Aviv. The study of 10,000 Jewish children, which appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that kids in the U.K. were almost 10 times as likely to have a peanut allergy as their peers in Israel, says Lack.

Why the disparity? Although Lack can’t draw conclusive explanations from his observational study, he suggests that one reason may have to do with early exposure. In Israel, children are typically introduced to peanuts much earlier than in Europe and North America. Lack points to a popular Israeli snack food called Bamba (like peanut-flavored Cheez Doodles), which youngsters start eating as early as infancy. That early exposure may desensitize children to peanuts, even in kids with a family history of food allergies.”
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968474,00.html#ixzz2ErPmqTL0

Thanks for the post, Bruce. I hate trying to argue with Iggy. I come away battered and bruised. (:->)

There is this thing called epigenetics, which I suspect you already know about. I hate doctors with every fiber of my being, but I still believe that there are people who are allergic to latex and peanuts and wheat and other thing, and I think that this is new, and I think that it is not caused by doctors trying to make money but by shitty diets for generations.

Although this discussion is a bit off-topic, there’s merit in all the points put up. We all want health, wealth (however you define it) and happiness. Even the people who try to block advances (as Alain pointed to) are really just trying to hold on to a system where they’re doing well – changes tend to disadvantage such people unless they move their positions.

The problem with experimenting with your own diet is that you have 1 subject and no control to measure against. You can’t isolate the effect of a dietary change since the cause of any change may be one or more of any number of other things. It’s very subjective. On the other hand, if you feel better then it’s probably worth continuing along whatever path you’re trying, provided you can afford it. Just don’t assert that, because it worked for you, it’s necessarily good for everyone, but it’s good to tell people in case they want to try to see if it works for them.

I still remain convinced that processed food is the enemy, especially white flour and sugar. Crude foods, such as oats groats and wheat berries are slowly metabolized. These are the forms that are consumed by animals. These are the forms that that primitive man thrived on. Man didn’t develop molars for anything but grinding.

Personally I feel health, to a large extent, is a roll of the dice….i.e. genetics.