Importance of microorganisms
I am microbiologist & i know how food safety is important in our life. But i have question. When we always eat safe foods.....are we more susceptible for diseases? because may be our immune system not develop.
Your angle of thinking is an opposite way!.
Eating healthy & safe food is natural way to boost your immune system!.
Eating Safe food means you can fight infections stronger and your immunity system is good. You can recover faster from infections. I have also read if you want to heal your wound faster you have to eat nutritionally rich safe food.
Lets wait for other people views.
Regards,
anish
Dear All,
I am microbiologist & i know how food safety is important in our life. But i have question. When we always eat safe foods.....are we more susceptible for diseases? because may be our immune system not develop.
Interesting question- if you consider the principles of vaccination- ie exposure to the pathogen or its toxin (in some way shape or form) to initiate an immune response -then the answer must be yesDear All,
I am microbiologist & i know how food safety is important in our life. But i have question. When we always eat safe foods.....are we more susceptible for diseases? because may be our immune system not develop.
I was talking with a guy a few weeks ago about this very topic- his standpoint was that in very young babies- if they are not exposed to pathogens(too clean!)-or are given broad spectrum antibiotics in the first months of life then an inbalance is created in the lymphocytes- the TH1's do not develop as well because they have nothing to do resulting in a poor immune system later in life but this also-allows the TH2's to develop out of proportion- TH2's apparently then 'look for something to do'-they would normally deal with parasites-he believed- that 'the something' might be attacking various potential allergens by releasing histamine-this is what he was stating was the cause of the rapid increase in allergies(and asthma) over the last
few years!!
Haven't had time to look for any research on this(yet)-but maybe someone here can shed some light?
Mike
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...
Dear Sudarshan,
Your angle of thinking is an opposite way!.
Eating healthy & safe food is natural way to boost your immune system!.
Eating Safe food means you can fight infections stronger and your immunity system is good. You can recover faster from infections. I have also read if you want to heal your wound faster you have to eat nutritionally rich safe food.
Lets wait for other people views.
Regards,
anish
Hi
i agree eat nutritionally rich safe food which is strength of our body........but you know some microorganisms now come out one by one & our immune system fails to fight with them. may be i am thinking or talking baseless today. i read one news in which in Ganga river lot of people bath there but they were not infected but one foreigner just once he bath there. he immediately infected.
1. Each person have different tolerance level to different pathogens. So the threshold level for each pathogen is hard to determine. so food industry must try to keep pathogen level at minimum level
2. If you compare immunity of two person from different country. you will see huge difference in that
I guess to maintain immunity level one should take a tap water on regular basis. that will help you to maintain your level ( not greatly but a bit) Obviously even your statement is correct it does not mean that each person should start taking pathogens intentionally. But yes that is the fact and i do not know what will be the end...........
regard
raffay
I truely support sudarshan in his point of view. Below are few reason why still we must produce safe food.
1. Each person have different tolerance level to different pathogens. So the threshold level for each pathogen is hard to determine. so food industry must try to keep pathogen level at minimum level
2. If you compare immunity of two person from different country. you will see huge difference in that
I guess to maintain immunity level one should take a tap water on regular basis. that will help you to maintain your level ( not greatly but a bit) Obviously even your statement is correct it does not mean that each person should start taking pathogens intentionally. But yes that is the fact and i do not know what will be the end...........
On the other hand, the safe food means the food go through sterilization measures and deemed to be suitable for human consumption. Each pathogen/parasite/virus has its own "trigger loading numbers" to cause the food poisoning.
Hence in conclusion food after sterilization process could be consumed by people.
By the way, all food mentioned hereare food immediately consumed after sterilization % cooling. Shelflife of food is ignored here.
Best regards,
Jason
Interesting question- if you consider the principles of vaccination- ie exposure to the pathogen or its toxin (in some way shape or form) to initiate an immune response -then the answer must be yes
I was talking with a guy a few weeks ago about this very topic- his standpoint was that in very young babies- if they are not exposed to pathogens(too clean!)-or are given broad spectrum antibiotics in the first months of life then an inbalance is created in the lymphocytes- the TH1's do not develop as well because they have nothing to do resulting in a poor immune system later in life but this also-allows the TH2's to develop out of proportion- TH2's apparently then 'look for something to do'-they would normally deal with parasites-he believed- that 'the something' might be attacking various potential allergens by releasing histamine-this is what he was stating was the cause of the rapid increase in allergies(and asthma) over the last
few years!!
Haven't had time to look for any research on this(yet)-but maybe someone here can shed some light?
Mike
Very interesting concept! WIth all the anti-bacterial cleaners, soaps, sanitizers, etc. that are used in homes nowadays, I would be interested to hear more about research on this. I just did a quick search to see what articles were out there on this topic and it appears there is a TON of research on this sort of concept. Not exactly easy reading though however as I do not have a microbiology background.