With all the craze about specialized diets, one often wonders how on earth did we survive before? While I am aware that some allergies are life-threatening, I am also aware that these allergies existed even before, what makes them lethal today is that in the process of adapting to the environment, we have lost quite a few immunities we would have had in the past. The earliest one I remember is 'dust allergy'. When I first heard someone use this as a reason to get a different place assigned for work, other than the library, I laughed! Today there are multiple examples: gluten free, vegan, diet drinks, sugar-free, ... what not! Most often these are fancy fads.
The human body is an amazing piece of work. It can adapt itself to great variations - perhaps not as varied as some animals, but it does have enormous capacity. Only if we let it develop can we enjoy diverse conditions of climate, food, drinks, circumstances... But if we pamper it and shield it too much, it will not develop the necessary immunity to fight and at the first slight variation, succumb to illness.
The human body is an amazing piece of work. It can adapt itself to great variations - perhaps not as varied as some animals, but it does have enormous capacity. Only if we let it develop can we enjoy diverse conditions of climate, food, drinks, circumstances... But if we pamper it and shield it too much, it will not develop the necessary immunity to fight and at the first slight variation, succumb to illness.
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