Allergy Planet
Monday March 16, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT (CBC)
In Britain and America cases of asthma, eczema and hay fever have trebled in the last three decades and food allergies, virtually unheard of in the past, have increased by over 500%. Are we becoming allergic to the 21st Century?
Historically allergies barely registered on the health agenda, but today with 1.2 billion allergy sufferers around the world, it is a phenomenon that is impossible to ignore. Not only are the number of allergy sufferers increasing year on year, but the allergies doctors are treating are getting more severe. The western world is in the grips of a growing epidemic...(this) is a terrifying phenomenon..
This is a truly global...allergies are influenced by our genes; ....a potential damage caused by the environment in which we live; (but, it may) be all in the mind.
(Is there any) truth in the famous 'hygiene hypothesis', which posits that the eradication of sickness and disease may be responsible. (many suggest) that the way we treat our skin barrier may be more important than we ever realised, and discovers the protective effect of the unique microbial ecosystem that lives on us and in us.
...Have we have created a world mismatched to our biology, and are allergies the price we have to pay for the privileged lifestyle we have chosen? (excerpts. parenthesis mine)
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