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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504145)	12/5/2003 11:56:47 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

This is the theory your link floats to explain the phenomenon, and it has little to do with air pollution: Because of modern sanitation, climate control, and immunization, many of the original problems the immune system evolved to combat no longer exist routinely in advanced industrial countries like ours. However, the defenses are still within us. Like soldiers demobilized at the end of a war, they need time to adjust after the fighting stops, but in the case of immunity that has evolved over aeons, the adjustment hasn't begun. Idle hands make the devil's work. These are defenses in search of an enemy, and they spend their time attacking all kinds of things—molds, pollens, chemicals used in the construction of our homes—and in the process of attacking those irritants, they throw off toxins that make us sick.