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  • EVLCRETURE
    EVLCRETURE
    Posted on:
    20th Nov 2008 11:47pm

    Last Post 11th Oct 2012
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    Discussion: Australia

    Is the next generation going to be strong enough? Are we breading the natural strength out of our immune systems?

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  • Mr. A
    Mr. A
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    22nd Nov 2008 12:04am

    Mr. A says: We learn to adapt to our circumstances, however, yes we are becoming weaker as a society

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  • nasr
    nasr
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    16th Mar 2010 07:25am

    Mr. A says: We learn to adapt to our circumstances, however, yes we are becoming weaker as a society

    nasr says: i agree with you

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  • Shons
    Shons
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    4th Jul 2011 09:10am

    Mr. A says: We learn to adapt to our circumstances, however, yes we are becoming weaker as a society

    Shons says: I also agree with you on this

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  • cookla
    cookla
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    26th Feb 2009 12:04pm

    cookla says: i don't think society is weaker just lazier


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  • cookla
    cookla
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    26th Feb 2009 12:05pm

    cookla says: i don't think society isnt
    weaker just lazier


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  • reatoro73
    reatoro73
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    26th Feb 2009 12:32pm

    reatoro73 says: If you look back to the bible times, people lived for hundreds of years and women were conceiving and givig birth at very old ages.
    Now, we are lucky to live till we're 100 years of age. We aren't getting weaker, we are making bad decisions, abusing our bodies with drugs, bad food and things that are not good for us.

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  • DD
    DD
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    16th Jun 2010 08:58pm

    reatoro73 says: If you look back to the bible times, people lived for hundreds of years and women were conceiving and givig birth at very old ages.
    Now, we are lucky to live till we're 100 years of age. We...

    DD says: People lived longer in bible times because the calenders were different, and years were calculated differently. I think. I don't think it's just the bad stuff that's makeing us more unhealthy though, we are losing our natural immunity from vaccinations and things like that as well.

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  • shaper
    shaper
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    13th Feb 2010 10:34am

    shaper says: I think the stories your thinking of are from the bible, actual history will tell you that people died very young,40 was OLD and we are living much longer. now because of our diets, clean water to drink and health care. Even in recent history (the last100 years) people did not live as long as we are doing now. We will just have to learn to be strong, do more with ourselves . Lean to use our minds as well as our bodies.

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  • electro
    electro
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    13th Apr 2010 10:59am

    electro says: no i dont think so we tend to make everything super hygenic so we become suseptable to germs

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  • DD
    DD
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    16th Jun 2010 09:01pm

    electro says: no i dont think so we tend to make everything super hygenic so we become suseptable to germs

    DD says: Yes I agree! Hygeine is good, but going overboard does not let us develop our immune systems, as our bodies do not have the viruses to develop against.

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  • clarkee
    clarkee
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    25th Apr 2010 10:36am

    clarkee says: the next gen are not going to be strong minded as these days thay are just not taught with respect or manners and to think for themself,Idont blame them it is the living standards.

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  • DD
    DD
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    16th Jun 2010 09:03pm

    clarkee says: the next gen are not going to be strong minded as these days thay are just not taught with respect or manners and to think for themself,Idont blame them it is the living standards.

    DD says: Thank you for saying it is the living standard. I agree with you now. But, like you say, you can't really blame gen y for being like gen y, for being raised this way.

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  • shachah7
    shachah7
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    14th Jun 2010 05:34pm

    shachah7 says: You alright mate - What on earth are you going on about? Breeding the natural strength out of our immune systems??? How can this possibly occur???

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  • DD
    DD
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    16th Jun 2010 08:53pm

    DD says: I'm confused- do you mean weaker as menatlly or physically?

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  • lpullman
    lpullman
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    23rd Jun 2010 06:25pm

    lpullman says: This question just shows your age: every generation has those who bemoan the state of the next. Get over yourself and get on with your life.

    And people did not live for hundreds of years in biblical times. The lived to forty if they were lucky. No hooky calendars, just myth.

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  • Elcee
    Elcee
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    15th Oct 2010 08:42pm

    Elcee says: A visit to any childrens hospital will show just how many auto immune diseases are now prevalent throughout your state. Multiply the numbers by the number of states and you will get an idea of just how much we are weakening our childrens immune systems, by feeding them hormone and gm laden foods, sterilising things excessively and poisoning the air we breathe with chemicals and toxic pollutants. When will we learn that the world depends on our children ...our children are our future. I have a two year old granddaughter who could die because her immunisation caused a virus which triggered her immune system to attack her own skin and muscles. We are living with this on a daily basis so understand full well the dangers being caused to our immune system. We must care for our children with clean air and chemical free foods, and not be pressured into immunising them with every new vaccine that pharmaceutical companies develope..

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  • PukPuk
    PukPuk
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    26th Oct 2010 08:38am

    PukPuk says: Modern society is breeding softies expecting everything to be given to them instead of earned. In a lot of cases, we need to experience or be exposed to things in order to build up our natural defences so when something of adversity is faced we are able to defend ourselves. The human race needs to go back to the Book of Leviticus which actually lists various food types that the human body is designed to thrive on. Unfortunately I too have been lazy in modern life and now had to go back to these basics to survive. Sustenance has now won over taste.

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  • elmina
    elmina
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    8th Nov 2010 01:28pm

    elmina says: I think you mean breeding?
    No - immune systems adapt, like any other system in an organism. Adaptation to the environment and surrounding circumstances is a natural phenomenon that ensures organisms endure, and live on to successfully reproduce and gradually mutate.
    Change will happen, and the human immune system adapts around those changes. However, it is also inevitable that all these small and gradual alterations mean that things do not remain the same. For example, someone living in a city in the 18th century had immunity to the diseases rampant then - they would be totally vulnerable to our diseases if they suddenly reappeared now and faced hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.

    See what I mean? And we have become very vulnerable to TB and smallpox because they have been distant from us, and out of circulation for so long.

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  • Gaz
    Gaz
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    17th Nov 2010 05:06am

    Gaz says: No. Evolution doesn't work as simply as that. Richard Dawkins' book "The Greatest Show on Earth" explains it well.

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  • Kaptijn
    Kaptijn
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    3rd Dec 2010 08:25am

    Kaptijn says: We are breading the strength out of our immune system by using drugs and living a wrong life style. At the same time we extend our live expeactations by creating that live style and an artifisial immune system based on drugs.

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