Recent studies have indicated that growing up around pets & livestock may help the body build up resistance to disease. Studies have shown that children who grow up with animals have fewer allergies and less asthma than those that don’t. Exposure to immune-stimulating germs may also lower the risk of heart disease.
Experts are advising us that living in total sanitation may be doing more harm than good and that playing in the dirt ocassionally might actually be a good thing!
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