Well Duh ! Allergy Advice changes, again.

[Channel Hopper]

There used to be a saying aboout giving really young children a bit of earth to stave off problems in later life, but for some reason the 'experts' changed this advice.

Prof Alan Boobis, from Imperial College London, said: "The previous view that delaying the introduction of allergenic foods decreases the risk of food allergy is incorrect and... if anything, the exclusion or delayed introduction of specific allergenic foods may increase the risk of allergy to the same foods, including peanut."


Give peanut to babies early - advice - BBC News

Some are now seeing through the earlier folly.

 

[PaulR]

As my grandmother used to say - you eat a peck of dirt before you die.

 

[Analoguesat]

I very often pull a carrot out of the soil up at oh's allotment knock the worst of the dirt off it & scoff it straight off. And Im hardly ever ill despite all the bugs that go around working at a school..

 

[Lazarus]

Steady as she goes. Balanced diet. A little bit of what you fancy (Not confined to food and drink) does you good.

 

[2cvbloke]

Picking your nose and devouring it is a good way to boost your immune system, nasty thought I know, but the amount of bugs up the average snout is quite impressive, but are in small amounts so the immune system can take a look at it and remember it for later when some typhoid mary in Currys sneezes all over you...

 

[Channel Hopper]

Picking your nose and devouring it is a good way to boost your immune system, nasty thought I know, but the amount of bugs up the average snout is quite impressive, but are in small amounts so the immune system can take a look at it and remember it for later when some typhoid mary in Currys sneezes all over you...

They don't promote that service on the telly adverts.

 

[2cvbloke]

They don't promote that service on the telly adverts.

Course not, they'd rather you bought pharmaceuticals than use a natural and freely available preventative...

 

[Channel Hopper]

Course not, they'd rather you bought pharmaceuticals than use a natural and freely available preventative...

They kept that line quiet as well.

 

[2cvbloke]

They kept that line quiet as well.

So you've never seen a Lemsip advert?

 

[Channel Hopper]

So you've never seen a Lemsip advert?

Not by Currys. Does PC World now have a condom section ?

 

[Lazarus]

Not by Currys. Does PC World now have a condom section ?

If they did, they wouldn't be able to tell you how Condoms work, or what to do if you contract a Virus.