The unidentifiable beauty of dirty kids.
Yes, I do have allergies. Any metal or plastic on my skin results in red irritated spots, a kind of eczema, it’s not really a problem, it’s easy to avoid and the only downside is that I haven’t found a watch that doesn’t leave itchy marks on my wrist. Although, who needs a watch, unless it’s some very expensive thing that you could turn in to some cash.. I must be a bit allergic to filthy air because before I moved to the countryside of Portugal I used to inhale Ventolin at least once a day, it must have been the air in the industrial environment I lived in. I guess that sums up a bit the negative things nature handed over to me the day I was born. I do however have problems with one particular thing and although it doesn’t affect my well-being for more than a few seconds every time I’m confronted with it, I starting to realize that it’s actually an allergy for hygiene commercials.
“We will keep your kid save”, “Wash your hands with Dettol after every touch”, “Our product kills all bacteria’s”, and more of these resistant killing slogans are the most obnoxious adverts of modern times. Nowadays every kid has some new disease, and if they don’t they’re not part of the elite group of children raised by modern parents who, want the best for their kids but, just can’t bear the thought of their offspring being average. I mean, really, chemical drugs to keep them calm, fake baby milk to let them grow and twenty-four brands of soap and antibacterial products to keep those little hands an faces clean. No matter how many doctors and researchers are proving that all kinds of allergies wouldn’t get a grip on the young ones if they are exposed early in life to these allergens that help build a tolerance the germs. More than half of all children who grow up with “clean” parents whose homes are blessed with very few germs suffer from wheezing as toddlers. At the same time, only 17 percent of children from dirtier homes develop the condition, illustrating the sometimes beneficial role that bacteria and other germs can play in building strong immunity.
Money always wins. The big pharmaceutical corporations spend billions every year to indoctrinate parents with the false message that bacteria’s are bad, while at the same time they sell bacteria drinks to support your “eat, digestion and shit” process as if the body couldn’t do that by itself. And yes, I know there are children with real physical problems and they sometimes need a lot of the products and medicines that are invented lately. But if parents would go back to the “normal” mode, let kids play and get dirty, don’t react with an outbreak of hysteria every time there’s some dirt underneath those little nails, give them the freedom to grow up as their parents did with them, doctors and researchers could spent their expensive time on real problems.
I’ve been in some parts of the world, drank water from almost every tap, never got sick. Now maybe that’s because the quality of water wasn’t that great back home when I was a child and got less vulnerable for some of the “bad” bacteria’s that are floating around in it. Buying water in bottles that were filled directly from a natural source is one of the biggest schemes of modern times. Here in Portugal you can fill your bottles in almost every village for free and believe me it’s no worse than the commercially bottled, in fact, it might be better. You don’t need all these “body oils” and “skin moistening” products if you wouldn’t wash off the natural protecting bacteria’s of your skin in the first place. In the end, humans, when the big Pharmaceutic companies achieve what the want, will only be able to survive in a manacle controlled clean environment, needing all kinds of products to keep their body functioning the way it uses to do from the early days on by itself.
The conclusion most researchers agree on is that having allergen exposure and the bacterial exposure from the day you were born is the most protective way of staying healthy. Instead of running around with antibacterial tissues at the playground, parents should get back to normality, meaning good old fashion traditions. The unidentifiable beauty of dirty kids is that it makes them more healthy people in the future. Oh well, concerned parents are allowed to wash those filthy kids more than once a week, maybe they own a white couch…
“We will keep your kid save”, “Wash your hands with Dettol after every touch”, “Our product kills all bacteria’s”, and more of these resistant killing slogans are the most obnoxious adverts of modern times. Nowadays every kid has some new disease, and if they don’t they’re not part of the elite group of children raised by modern parents who, want the best for their kids but, just can’t bear the thought of their offspring being average. I mean, really, chemical drugs to keep them calm, fake baby milk to let them grow and twenty-four brands of soap and antibacterial products to keep those little hands an faces clean. No matter how many doctors and researchers are proving that all kinds of allergies wouldn’t get a grip on the young ones if they are exposed early in life to these allergens that help build a tolerance the germs. More than half of all children who grow up with “clean” parents whose homes are blessed with very few germs suffer from wheezing as toddlers. At the same time, only 17 percent of children from dirtier homes develop the condition, illustrating the sometimes beneficial role that bacteria and other germs can play in building strong immunity.
Money always wins. The big pharmaceutical corporations spend billions every year to indoctrinate parents with the false message that bacteria’s are bad, while at the same time they sell bacteria drinks to support your “eat, digestion and shit” process as if the body couldn’t do that by itself. And yes, I know there are children with real physical problems and they sometimes need a lot of the products and medicines that are invented lately. But if parents would go back to the “normal” mode, let kids play and get dirty, don’t react with an outbreak of hysteria every time there’s some dirt underneath those little nails, give them the freedom to grow up as their parents did with them, doctors and researchers could spent their expensive time on real problems.
I’ve been in some parts of the world, drank water from almost every tap, never got sick. Now maybe that’s because the quality of water wasn’t that great back home when I was a child and got less vulnerable for some of the “bad” bacteria’s that are floating around in it. Buying water in bottles that were filled directly from a natural source is one of the biggest schemes of modern times. Here in Portugal you can fill your bottles in almost every village for free and believe me it’s no worse than the commercially bottled, in fact, it might be better. You don’t need all these “body oils” and “skin moistening” products if you wouldn’t wash off the natural protecting bacteria’s of your skin in the first place. In the end, humans, when the big Pharmaceutic companies achieve what the want, will only be able to survive in a manacle controlled clean environment, needing all kinds of products to keep their body functioning the way it uses to do from the early days on by itself.
The conclusion most researchers agree on is that having allergen exposure and the bacterial exposure from the day you were born is the most protective way of staying healthy. Instead of running around with antibacterial tissues at the playground, parents should get back to normality, meaning good old fashion traditions. The unidentifiable beauty of dirty kids is that it makes them more healthy people in the future. Oh well, concerned parents are allowed to wash those filthy kids more than once a week, maybe they own a white couch…
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