1. Hygiene Hypothesis - Too Clean for Good Health
Before the advent of good hygiene practices and successful antimicrobial agents, the rate of communicable disease was unimaginable compared to today's rate of disease. Comparatively, it is easy to see a difference in sanitary standards between the western and industrialized nations and the third world and non-developed nations. Additionally, the rate of communicable diseases, such as diarrheal and parasitic diseases, is far more prevalent in the third world and underdeveloped communities. However, the rate of autoimmune and allergic disease is far more prevalent in developed nations compa...
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