Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

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 Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <fv9hno01lth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> Profoundly stupid thing to say.
> 
> > And no doubt the Black Plague 
> Spread to Europe by the late 1340s. It is thought to have returned to 
> Europe every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the

> 1700s.
> > was due to being "germ free" as was the 
> > smallpox epidemic that nearly wiped out the native Americans.
> Begining in 1492.
> 
> Louis Pasture demonstrated in 1859 that the fermentation process is 
> caused by the growth of microorganisms . . .
> Along with his contem****ary, Robert Koch, Pasteur was an early advocate 
> of the germ theory of disease.
> Koch finally proved the germ theory, for which he was awarded a Nobel 
> Prize in 1905. (!!!, How far we have come in so short a time.)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
> 
> Cholera arrived in Britain for the first time in the autumn of 
> 1831. The fourth outbreak occurred in 1854, when thirty thousand 
> died in London alone. From looking at London maps, it became 
> apparent that people who got their household water from the Thames 
> up stream from sewage discharges had few cases of cholera than 
> those who received water down stream from the sewer discharges.
> http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106crbo_books
> 
> Who would have guessed drinking **** would have made you sick? It
> would be another five years before Pasture proposed that
> micro-organisms could affect health.
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> http://google-sina.com/2008/04/25/when-cleanliness-becomes-too-clean/
> 
> When Cleanliness Becomes Too Clean
> 
> As a child, I can remember my mother always saying that a little dirt 
> wouldn¹t hurt me. Now, it seems that this really may be true. Our 
> obsession with cleanliness may be the cause of even more cases of 
> allergies and asthma being found.New York - The ³Hygiene Hypothesis² is 
> what the doctors are saying is the root of more allergic diseases. This 
> means that the cleaner we become, the more we remove necessary bacteria 
> that would help bolster our immune systems against disease.
> 
> Dr. Joseph Flanagan, an Allergist says,
> 
>     ³You need some exposure to some bacteria to train the immune system.

> If our environment is too clean and antiseptic we may not get the chance

> to have that proper training of the immune system.²
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> 
> Hygiene hypothesis
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
> 
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> 
> The same holds true for milk. Pasteurized milk (ironic, eh?) is 
> defenseless against infectious organisms, whereas raw milk 
> contains lactobacillus, which will lower milks pH, and protects 
> it against bacterial infection.
> 
> So ignorance is only bliss, when it is folly to be wise, and 
> knowledge still requires judgement.
> 
> It would appear J. that somewhere between imbibing infectious
> organisms, and wiping every surface in your house down with Lysol, 
> there lies a desired middle ground.
> 
> I hope I have helped you;-)

 I'd hazard a guess that homes that do not reflect the outside 
temperature has a similar  detrimental immune effect.  My wife got me 
into sleeping in the winter time with the window open partial.  In 
summer no air until above 90 F and never more than 10 degree difference.

<http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/medicaldepartments/internalmedicine/a
cclimatization/index.html>

  Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA