On 02/05/2018 13:33, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:18:02 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 02/05/2018 11:09, Andrew wrote:
On 02/05/2018 09:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 02/05/18 09:28, Nightjar wrote:
Asthma is certainly something that I don't recall anybody I
knew as a child having, which I doubt would be the case
today.

At least 4 people in my class at primary school had it and 3-4
in my secondary school, as did I.

We didnt advertise the fact tho.



They tend to grow out of it. The point is, how many of the 14,500
centenarians had serious illnesses or accidents during their
lives before the nanny state NHS ?. These are the ones who
inherited a good set of genes and a fair dose of lady luck.

Isn't that the whole point?

Distorted stats yes.

They developed immunity as a result of exposure to stuff that
modern children aren't exposed to.

No they didn't or there's little proof. Few children had serious
illnesses or accidents from the mines in later life because they died
early and few records were kept.

Irrelevant unless you are claiming those with asthma were more likely to
die in a mine accident.

Likewise serious illness as you are looking at the past history of those
that survived not those that died from other causes.

You have about as much understanding as smokers do.. you can look at a
population and see that lots of the people that suffer from heart
disease smoke so its very likely that smoking causes heart disease but
you say well look they are 90 and smoke and dont have heart disease so
it can't be true. Based totally on your limited views.


Their immune system learnt to attack the bad stuff rather than the
person so they haven't developed as many illnesses caused by faulty
immune systems.

How many kids then were pushed along in buggies along congested roads
with cars and lorries spewing out all sorts of crap, 100 years ago
there weren't many cars on the road or buses or lorries. So little CO
far less CO2 and virtually no nitrous oxide or platinium from
catolitic converters.

Yes and?



I wonder how they are with arthritis as that is frequently caused
by an over zealous immune system.

IS it ?, it's not quite a simple as you seem to think.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/7621.php