Cleanliness is crappy

so sez the BBC

Cleanliness 'leads to diabetes'
Diseases such as diabetes could be caused by children being too clean, researchers have suggested. [BBC News]

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute in California, say being exposed to too few germs means the immune system is not stimulated enough.

ha, I wish I had this excuse when I was a kid.....but Mom, I don't wanna take a bath....


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