{"id":1638,"date":"2015-05-29T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T08:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2015-05-29T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T08:51:33","slug":"invite-some-germs-to-dinner-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Invite Some Germs to Dinner NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/10\/sunday-review\/invite-some-germs-to-dinner.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/10\/sunday-review\/invite-some-germs-to-dinner.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By KATE MURPHY, MAY 9, 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The theory that there might be such a thing as \u201ctoo clean\u201d food stems from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S128645791000050X\">hygiene hypothesis<\/a>, which has been gaining traction over the last decade. It holds that our modern germaphobic ways may be making us sick by harming our microbiome, which comprises all the microscopic beasties \u2014 bacteria, viruses, fungi, mites, etc. \u2014 that live in and on our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Research so far has focused primarily on the detrimental effects of cesarean births and not breast-feeding, which may <a href=\"http:\/\/respiratory-research.com\/content\/2\/3\/129\">inhibit the formation<\/a> of a robust microbiome, and the use of antibacterial soaps and antibiotics, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ismej\/journal\/v1\/n1\/abs\/ismej20073a.html\">diminish the microbiome<\/a> once it is established.<\/p>\n<p>A result is an immune system that essentially gets bored, spoiling for a fight and apt to react to harmless substances and even attack the body\u2019s own tissues. This could explain the increasing incidence of allergies and <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1365-2249.2010.04139.x\/full\">autoimmune disorders<\/a> such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>There is also the suggestion that a diminished microbiome disrupts hormones that regulate hunger, which can cause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3104783\/\">obesity<\/a> and metabolic disorders.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/10\/sunday-review\/invite-some-germs-to-dinner.html By KATE MURPHY, MAY 9, 2015 The theory that there might be such a thing as \u201ctoo clean\u201d food stems from the hygiene hypothesis, which has been gaining traction over the last decade. It holds that our modern germaphobic ways may be making us sick by harming our microbiome, which comprises all the microscopic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}