Eat a pinch of dirt a day

I eat a pinch of dirt everyday...lol...I go to my garden and pick some of my vegetables and just eat them sometimes before I can get into the house to wash them off...I knock off the dirt I can see but don't worry about the rest...The body needs some germs to make out a good balance...Pikey since you like eating dirt ever thought of eating mud pies...lol

I definitely eat a bit of dirt each day... but it tastes better when you mix it in with your food!

I definitely agree that people are a bit ridiculous with trying to be clean. I believe, they are actually hurting themselves! They arent allowing their immune system to do the little jobs, so they arent prepared for the big jobs when it comes around!

I'm more of a low grade silt man myself, but if that's not available, dirt will do and I partake regularly of course. (Or is it the coffee they make here that resembles dirt in taste and texture and I drink it? I do get confused at times) There's definitely an obsession with hygiene and cleanliness today and it's totally unnecessary. Immune systems weaken with reduced exposure to germs and illnesses take a greater toll on people if they get contracted as well.

Yes. That's my answer, where I grew up as a kid, children played entirely exposed to the natural elements and they hardly get sick. They don't have slippers on, when it rains, they play and bathe in the rain, and yet they don't get sick more often as kids nowadays, This is because they develop a harder and stronger immune system, because they form antibodies against these elements, which most kids don't have nowadays.

LOL! i don't set out to eat dirt every day. however i do think we have taken the cleaning of every single thing to far. i don't ever remember my parents or grandparents doing the kind of cleaning we are required to do now days. i never got see as a child. i think the sickest i ever got was chicken pox. now they want us to wash the wash we use to wash!! WTF!!!!!

nope,we cant be tat clean to pass out everyday life, obviously we do take in certain amount of dirt everyday, consciously or unconsciously... being too clean is actually outdated these days... we cant expect cleanliness around us...
so everybody takes in dirt, not just a pinch but loads...

LOL...why oh why didn't your friend have a camera ready?? I would so much like to have seen the look on your face while you enjoyed a mouthful of mud. Tasted like more than a mouthful, didn't it? Brought you back to playing mudpies when you were little?
I think eating a pinch of dirt means not literally eating dirt. It more relates to what was probably consumed before we, as a society, became so fanatically clean and obsessed with germs. Growing up, before we were striving to be 99.9% germ free, I think I knew of only one child in my school that had asthma. Nobody had bronchitis that I remember, and very few had allergies. We are now so obsessed with 'clean', that our bodies are no longer developing immunity/antibodies to many common germs when we are young. Our bodies have the best chance to build these defenses while we're young.
People should forget about being fanatical about clean, and go play in the dirt with their kids. If you happen to drop your chocolate chip cookie, eat it anyway. You never see ants with asthma do you?

I think that the amount of antibacterial soaps and washes we use actually makes us sicker in the end. That by using them so often we create super bugs and our bodies dont get a chance to build up immunity to them.

I think its ok to get dirty, follow the 5 second rule (cookie on the floor is still good if its picked up before 5 seconds), reuse glasses, my family has a community cup by the sink we get a glass of water from if we are thirsty.

Hi P1key! Actually when I was a child I was told about how they had found a lot of children during the Depression were eating dirt. It was found that they were lacking so many vitamins in their diets that they did this...of course the children did not know why. As it turned out, they had a physical need to eat dirt and that was because dirt contained a great deal of iron, something that they were sadly lacking because so many did not have enough to eat!

Now as for You and eating dirt today! I am not sure that I would be dining on dirt simply by being spurred on by a friend unless the consequences would outweigh the deed!!! Care to share the consequence P1key or was it more of a dare situation??

So to answer your question and end my response: NO! I do not eat a pinch of dirt a day, while I have indeed had dirt when I was younger, I am like you and did not particularly enjoy the taste!

I feel that we should be more hygienic these days than we use to be. NOT because of the natural things that we are given by Mother Nature such as dirt, but because of how we have destroyed so much of our natural resources.

I always think it is strange how we have developed so many chemicals etc. to protect us against germs and then we need so many other chemicals to protect us against Those chemicals. Seems to me that a little dirt did not hurt people in those days...in fact it had just the opposite effect! But Today! It is considered very dangerous and unhealthy!!!

Cheer's to your pinch of dirt today P1key...I just wonder if maybe you found a couple of worms to attract a couple new fish for P1key's Harem??

Yes these days we are too hygienisc and clean. I think this is the influence of advertisement and doctor's advice in the newspapers.Different websites also liable for this habits.