Scientists investigate healing power of dirt
(NEWSER) - Babies in America tend to be a lot cleaner than those in, say, Namibia, and that has some advantages—most notably a drastically lower infant mortality rate. But scientists are beginning to wonder if our obsessively sanitary culture has actually given rise to various health issues, they tell the Wall Street Journal . “We have traded one problem for another,” says one Tufts professor. Allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases have all risen drastically as we've gotten more hygienic. More»
