A solution to deadly food poisoning outbreaks

[kenny]

Make a certain addition to your diet.
Actually it makes sense, but I''m very hesitant to do so.

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[Porridge]

Good heavens. To the toilets!

 

[that_someone_special]

icky

 

[Vancity]

Fascinating, Kenny...

So, if you''re at a dinner party, and announce to your hostess:

"That was a crappy dinner!"

She should really take it as a compliment?

 

[annadragon]

I''ll have to find the link or youtube video but there are two guys out there with similar ideas about this very topic.

1 of them was very ill as a young man and says he was cured by eating rotted, spoiled foods. He now rots and despoils all of his food. And I mean literally year old growth on a steak or 6 months in the sun tomatoes and never cooks any of it. He claims not to have been sick since he started this practice.

The other 1 I found in a video describing 2 different approaches to illness. One is a woman who believes everything should be super sterile and she has a program to ensure an aseptic environment. She is juxtaposed to a guy who literally believes that humans simply don''t ingest enough poop in their diet. So to cure this he will walk out into a cow pasture and scoop up a handful of dung and chow down.

I''ve seen a lot of revolting things working in an E.R. and perusing Youtube and freakish websites but these two things are real belly-turners.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

Food contamination is a scary, scary thing. My step-sister developed salmonella-based meningitis due to contaminated peanut butter. After a very long recovery she''s okay, but it was touch and go for awhile. So scary...

 

[charbie]

I wholeheartedly agree that we have become too sterile of a nation. Sure, here has been a rise in the "superbugs" but it is entirely our fault from over-medicating. I honestly feel like I don''t get sick very often bc when I was a kid I was always outside, sticking my hands in my mouth, drinking from the hose, and overall probably wasn''t uberclean all the time. With kids spending all this time indoors, sanitizing after they look at another kid, and not ever getting exposed to germs, I think it makes things a million times worse when people do get sick.

 

[brazen_irish_hussy]

It may gross people out, but I rarely wash my hands, no one in my family does. We believe in the hiegene hypothosis, too clean is bad. I remember in China I was the only one in my group not using purell every 2 minutes. I was also the only one who did not get sick to my stomach the whole time.

I do shower and brush my teeth and keep clean, but was never too worried about a little mold on something that could be picked off or the 5 second rule. Really, when you live with cats, everything has cat hair anyway.

I wouldn''t eat non foods, but I am a non germaphobe like my husband and my family and we are healthier than almot any other family I know

 

[Tuckins1]

I got food poisoning from the Peter Pan salmonella outbreak a few years ago. Never been so sick IN MY LIFE!!
But, eating more poop doesn''t really sound like something i''m willing to do to keep it from happening again...

 

[PumpkinPie]

I agree that our societies have become too sterile - it''s unhealthy especially for babies and little kids whose immune systems are developing.. but eating cow (or other mammal) poop? umm.no

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

So now I guess we''re supposed to eat poop AND boogers...Huh, my childhood was apparently a lie...

 

[ksinger]

I wash my vegetables. I wash my hands before food prep, after food prep, and after using the toilet - and I do mean WASH, no swish and go. And I scrub my cutting boards with soap and water. I''m certainly not doing less than that. That is basic hygiene after all. Beyond that though, you won''t see me using Lysol or bleach every 5 minutes.

I do think we''ve become a culture of unnecessary germaphobes though. Just TRY to find a soap these days WITHOUT triclosan in it. Nigh unto impossible it is. Plain old soap and water used properly does just as well.

I''m sorry though, I''m not eating poop. At least not on purpose.

 

[charbie]

Date: 4/26/2010 5:37:00 PM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
Food contamination is a scary, scary thing. My step-sister developed salmonella-based meningitis due to contaminated peanut butter. After a very long recovery she''s okay, but it was touch and go for awhile. So scary...

I don''t mean to downplay episodes like this. This is exactly what the article is talking about. By us never being exposed to any "bugs" we get wiped out completely and don''t have a natural defense or antibodies against these things. Who knows, its just my experience.

 

[kenny]

Maybe they should just start putting a in little brown M&Ms, Reese Cups, Baby Ruths and Tootsie Rolls, but just not tell us.

 

[PumpkinPie]

Date: 4/26/2010 10:13:12 PM
Author: kenny
Maybe they should just start putting a in little brown M&Ms, Reese Cups, Baby Ruths and Tootsie Rolls, but just not tell us.

did you have to include Reese Cups??? they''re my favourite, or they used to be.. now I''ll always think of this post

 

[kenny]

Sorry, just think of it as a vaccination.

 

[HopeDream]

Maybe we just need more houseflies. They get around and make everything a little filthy, but only on a fly spec scale.

I think the 5 second rule would also help, and the elimination of the triclosan disinfectant (which is being noticed as an endocrine disrupter) in cleaning products.

Here''s to a slightly grimier future!

 

[Pandora II]

Date: 4/26/2010 7:23:54 PM
Author: brazen_irish_hussy
It may gross people out, but I rarely wash my hands, no one in my family does. We believe in the hiegene hypothosis, too clean is bad. I remember in China I was the only one in my group not using purell every 2 minutes. I was also the only one who did not get sick to my stomach the whole time.

I do shower and brush my teeth and keep clean, but was never too worried about a little mold on something that could be picked off or the 5 second rule. Really, when you live with cats, everything has cat hair anyway.

I wouldn''t eat non foods, but I am a non germaphobe like my husband and my family and we are healthier than almot any other family I know

Other than washing hands after using a bathroom, ditto to the above.

We don''t use disinfectants or purell or anything of that kind. Mould gets cut off the cheese, best before dates are suggestions as far as I am concerned and if something smells fine it gets eaten.

I''ve only had food-poisoning once in the last 8 years and that was a few months ago after eating a salad from a very well know sandwich chain.

I let Daisy play in the mud - and eat it if she wants to - and I don''t follow her around ''sanitising'' surfaces or toys.

 

[lyra]

Date: 4/27/2010 10:20:22 AM
Author: Pandora II

Other than washing hands after using a bathroom, ditto to the above.

We don''t use disinfectants or purell or anything of that kind. Mould gets cut off the cheese, best before dates are suggestions as far as I am concerned and if something smells fine it gets eaten.

I''ve only had food-poisoning once in the last 8 years and that was a few months ago after eating a salad from a very well know sandwich chain.

I let Daisy play in the mud - and eat it if she wants to - and I don''t follow her around ''sanitising'' surfaces or toys.

I totally agree with Pandora. I refuse to have anti-bacterial soap in the house too. I recently went to Bath and Bodyworks and commented to them that it was a shame that ALL of their handsoaps were anti-bacterial. I like nice smelling handsoap as long as it''s just a mild regular soap.