New Book Claims We’re Too Clean

Written by Pat's Papers | Tuesday, 11 September 2012 7:01 AM

Are we too clean? That’s the premise of a book reviewed in today’s New York Times, which argues that our bodies gotten soft because of a lack of bacteria to fight off. The reviewer is impressed with the data supporting the hygiene hypothesis but seems unconvinced of the actual argument: “Does our path to good health lie in breathing microbe-rich dust and regaining the fecal content of our ancestors?”

Amazon Link: An Epidemic of Absence

SOURCE: New York Times

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