Eat a pinch of dirt a day

I'm more of a low grade silt man myself, but if that's not available, dirt will do and I partake regularly of course. (Or is it the coffee they make here that resembles dirt in taste and texture and I drink it? I do get confused at times) There's definitely an obsession with hygiene and cleanliness today and it's totally unnecessary. Immune systems weaken with reduced exposure to germs and illnesses take a greater toll on people if they get contracted as well.

I definitely eat a bit of dirt each day... but it tastes better when you mix it in with your food! I definitely agree that people are a bit ridiculous with trying to be clean. I believe, they are actually hurting themselves! They arent allowing their immune system to do the little jobs, so they arent prepared for the big jobs when it comes around!

LOL! i don't set out to eat dirt every day. however i do think we have taken the cleaning of every single thing to far. i don't ever remember my parents or grandparents doing the kind of cleaning we are required to do now days. i never got see as a child. i think the sickest i ever got was chicken pox. now they want us to wash the wash we use to wash!! WTF!!!!!

Yes. That's my answer, where I grew up as a kid, children played entirely exposed to the natural elements and they hardly get sick. They don't have slippers on, when it rains, they play and bathe in the rain, and yet they don't get sick more often as kids nowadays, This is because they develop a harder and stronger immune system, because they form antibodies against these elements, which most kids don't have nowadays.

LOL...why oh why didn't your friend have a camera ready?? I would so much like to have seen the look on your face while you enjoyed a mouthful of mud. Tasted like more than a mouthful, didn't it? Brought you back to playing mudpies when you were little? I think eating a pinch of dirt means not literally eating dirt. It more relates to what was probably consumed before we, as a society, became so fanatically clean and obsessed with germs. Growing up, before we were striving to be 99.9% germ free, I think I knew of only one child in my school that had asthma. Nobody had bronchitis that I remember, and very few had allergies. We are now so obsessed with 'clean', that our bodies are no longer developing immunity/antibodies to many common germs when we are young. Our bodies have the best chance to build these defenses while we're young. People should forget about being fanatical about clean, and go play in the dirt with their kids. If you happen to drop your chocolate chip cookie, eat it anyway. You never see ants with asthma do you?

nope,we cant be tat clean to pass out everyday life, obviously we do take in certain amount of dirt everyday, consciously or unconsciously... being too clean is actually outdated these days... we cant expect cleanliness around us... so everybody takes in dirt, not just a pinch but loads...

Well, I have heard that it isn't good to have everything so clean or to have everything sanitized so thoroughly since it may be bad for your immune system since it doesn't build up a resistance to it over time. That is what a doctor told me. But I don't think I have eaten dirt since I was a kid and made mud pies.And I don't think I will be eating on purpose anytime soonMy house is clean but it isn't totally immaculate. It has a lived in feeling.

I don't think I want to literally eat a pinch of dirt a day. Being a crocodile though does mean a certain amount of mud in some meal. I think the fashion for cleaning, sterilizing and disinfecting everything we come in to contact with has probably done far more harm than good. I think the two second rule for something which has fallen on the floor in a reasonably clean house is fine, (you can pick it up and eat it if it has been on the floor for less than two seconds, providing it was edible to start with). What happens to that .01% of germs that these things don't kill? Do they die of loneliness?

I think we are way to fastidious. Germs help us build up immunities without which we would be in trouble indeed. When I was a kid there was very little of the packaging we see these days. There were no use b y dates and best befores which I tend to ignore these days anyway. If it's not black mould I scrape it off, if it smells ok I eat it. I was rarely ill as a child and except for my aches and pains I'm rarely ill these days.

I pay very little attention to media exhortations to be so sanitized there's no flavor or patina left in my life. I wash any fresh produce of course, and use hot water and elbow grease for the rest, with a pinch of organic windshielf washer fluid thrown in (it works for everything and doesn't streak! lol). I don't use chemicals in my laundry, or for any other cleaning chores and I can't tell you how much money I've saved over the years ignoring the commercials on tv that tell me my life can be 'so much better and easier' if..... But I did cave in and buy a Swiffer when we put hardwood floors throughout the house! LOL

I have never ate dirt as an adult, but as a kid I was told I used too, lol, must have been good because my grandma could not stop me. I do not feel we are too clean and hygienic now days, if we were we would pay more attention to what we ate, where it come from and things like that but we don't, we just assume it is clean, plus is impossible to know how clean the places where our food comes from are clean.

Hey p1key! I'm quite sure that I have eaten some dirt in my time too! I used to love to play in dirt when I was young! I loved to climb dirt mountains and fences so I'm sure I did managed to eat some of it at some point! Even the doctors and scientists are saying that too much use of antibactieral products is no good for you! So, I am a bit of a hand washing freak and I do try to keep my bathroom and kitchen areas as clean as possible. I am a clean fanatic about myself and my clothes, one wearing and to the hamper it goes! Maybe I am too clean about some things, but it makes me feel better! I certainly don't go chasing the dust bunnies that's for sure! And according to the boyfriend I am an absolute pig! So you can just imagine what an anal retentive azzwhole I'm living with!!!

I think we are too clean these days. The cleaner we get and the greener we get, the more illness's happen to appear because we aren't building up immunities to them.

I think I'll pass on that pinch of dirt. ;) I figure I get plenty of immune system boosting nasties every time I go into a doctor's office (especially one with children in it!) or whenever I eat out to eat. A lot of the clean freakiness is really quite silly, and I do think it's gotten a bit out of hand. I know someone who won't let their child play outside for fear the kid will catch some sort of devestating...plant disease??

You only get immune if you let go. Again it depends on how you consumed it...thinking of it directly seems ugh...Well I do pick fruits or vegetables at the store and dump them in my mouth, just wiping them with my hands. So I guess some dirt always gets in. So far, so good. It has not affected me. And I hope I continue to be so. Good luck.

I don't know that I would ever voluntarily eat dirt, but I do think that people are just too paranoid about dirt. Those people really do tend to get sick more, because they weren't exposed to the germs in a way that they would build immunities... My former roommate's grandmother used to say "You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die." Well, guess your one pinch closer....

It was said, when I was a child (back in the Stone Age), that everyone ate a bushel of dirt a year just by living everyday life. Most of us were very healthy! I wouldn't eat dirt directly but I know I ingest it. That's ok! I don't sanitize everything, either, I want my immune system active with lots of foes to vanquish so that when something big--like swine flu--comes along, it'll be strong enough to slaughter it! These people who hate germs will be very sorry, very soon. Yes, we are too clean nowadays. That sounds crazy but we're seriously damaging our natural defenses.

I think that the amount of antibacterial soaps and washes we use actually makes us sicker in the end. That by using them so often we create super bugs and our bodies dont get a chance to build up immunity to them. I think its ok to get dirty, follow the 5 second rule (cookie on the floor is still good if its picked up before 5 seconds), reuse glasses, my family has a community cup by the sink we get a glass of water from if we are thirsty.

I truly think it's important to 'ave a bit o' filf. If you're too sterile, you don't build up any immunity. When we had our first baby, I was SO scrupulous about cleanliness - everything was sterilised, she wasn't allowed to put anything from the floor in her mouth, blah, blah, blah. She had lots of sniffles, rashes, conjunctivitis, etc., even though we were so careful. By the time our third and fourth children came along however, there wasn't any time for all the farnarkling and poncing around - they ate dirt, lived in squalour - and were fit as fiddles! I purposely never buy cleaning stuff which says it's 'antibacterial'. I like my life with bacteria in it, thanks ...

Hi P1key! Actually when I was a child I was told about how they had found a lot of children during the Depression were eating dirt. It was found that they were lacking so many vitamins in their diets that they did this...of course the children did not know why. As it turned out, they had a physical need to eat dirt and that was because dirt contained a great deal of iron, something that they were sadly lacking because so many did not have enough to eat! Now as for You and eating dirt today! I am not sure that I would be dining on dirt simply by being spurred on by a friend unless the consequences would outweigh the deed!!! Care to share the consequence P1key or was it more of a dare situation?? So to answer your question and end my response: NO! I do not eat a pinch of dirt a day, while I have indeed had dirt when I was younger, I am like you and did not particularly enjoy the taste! I feel that we should be more hygienic these days than we use to be. NOT because of the natural things that we are given by Mother Nature such as dirt, but because of how we have destroyed so much of our natural resources. I always think it is strange how we have developed so many chemicals etc. to protect us against germs and then we need so many other chemicals to protect us against Those chemicals. Seems to me that a little dirt did not hurt people in those days...in fact it had just the opposite effect! But Today! It is considered very dangerous and unhealthy!!! Cheer's to your pinch of dirt today P1key...I just wonder if maybe you found a couple of worms to attract a couple new fish for P1key's Harem??