Eating Durian fruit during pregnancy ups risk of bizarre outcomes

Scientists with nothing better to do jetted around in 5-star luxury to all the corners of the world to investigate whether eating the pungent fruit when pregnant was associated with adverse outcomes.

“There were strong correlations with many varied factors” said Dr DoLittle. “In Bali eating durian was associated with dropping handbags in the third trimester, in Mustique it was strongly associated with exploding bicycle tyres, in the Bahamas it was non-significantly associated with driving yellow cars into bushes and in Rania it was highly correlated with giving birth to a real baby with no clothes on.”

“This study has important implications” said Dr Fartwell. “We must replicate these findings in much larger long-term studies.”

Dr DoLittle added “Oh and our diligent, probing investigation uncovered another bizarre finding that was completely out of left field. That durian fruit really, really stinks. We are not talking stinky socks or mouldy cheese here. I mean it really, really, really stinks.”[1]

1. DoLittle, J., Ingestion of durian fruit when girlies are up the duff ups risk of adverse events. The Seriously Important Very Intelligent Journal for People who Wear White Coats, 2008. 768986(66): p. 7654.

PPARGammaGirl, while you are right that completely sterile condition vs. clean (or "very clean") environment are not exactly the same.  Sometime to understand a phenomena, you have to test the boundaries.  If by being extreme they can induce some problems in mice, chance are similar things will happen in other animal under the same condition (we are different, but we have plenty of similitude).  So I won't go as far as saying that it is completely useless.

So I don't know what are the intention of the people who did that specific research, but I think we have to be more open minded before claiming that these kinds of research are useless.  So maybe they are in for the money, maybe not.

Of course when talking about health issue, it can get very complex, a lot of dimension come into play, etc.  It is not as easy as Pythagorean theorem (a^2 + b^2 = c^2) for example.  That is why we cannot predict everything with a simple mathematics formula, but a formula does exists (i.e. there is an explanation for everything) even thought it might be very complex and may never be found in practice for all these reasons.

As for Durian, there is people that hate their smell so much that they create sign like this

www.nurulrahman.com/.../durian_banned.jpg

I heard there is place where we cannot eat it in public, etc. ha ha.

There is a very close correlation between babies/children brought up in a clean environment and mice kept in sterile conditions. The infant's body will develop immune responses regardless. Children raised in very clean environments routinely develop allergies and asthma.

A good example is the many aseptic/sterile surfaces being developed for home use that have been so popular in places like Japan.

It has more to do with Lifestyle and Environment than "Cures". Pay attention, don't miss the point.

Really? That is your argument? My friend's 3 year old son has MRSA.... MRSA, a 3 year old. He's not hospitalized or in a nursing home, or in the typical breeding grounds for MRSA. It is a strain of bacteria, a "super-bacteria" resistant to most antibiotics. I'm thinking all the fear-based product marketing "oh no, a germ!! quick, get the antibacterial cleaner or you're a terrible mother" is far more guilty of greed than these researchers, trying to prove that too-clean is not really any healthier than living in sewage. Extremes are not good. I have two large dogs and a long-haired cat, we live in Florida with a dirt-yard... I gave up on keeping the house spotless and germ-free. My son has been sick all of twice in his life. No allergies. My friend's daughter, who lives in anti-bacterial, hand-sanitizer world is constantly sick... she's 16 months old and has been sick more times than I can count. Coincidence? Maybe... maybe not

Pasteur's antagonist, Antoine Beauchamp, and those that followed him would agree with you. (Believe it or not, Pasteur was completely wrong and Beauchamp was right.)

Here's why auto-immune disorders are DIRECTLY connected to the lack of friendly bacteria. The lack of friendly bacteria allows yeast to flourish. Those two microbes compete for space.

When yeast flourishes, it changes from the shape of a bud to a rod shape, and is then able to poke holes in your intestinal lining. Those holes allow larger food particles...that aren't properly digested...to pass through.

The immune system freaks out about it. Initially, the immune system attacks the food particles as if the food particles were parasites. But with the repeated onslaught with each and every meal, the immune system ends up losing its mind.

As a result the immune system starts to attack healthy tissues. That's where the Type 1 diabetes comes into existence. Or it could be rheumatoid arthritis, or 100 other auto-immune disorders.

But you don't have to get an auto-immune disease to suffer from the extremely common yeast overgrowth. It's what causes food cravings, too...and can cause tummies to protrude.

But not to worry...you can kiss your yeast overgrowth goodbye.

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Using this same free program, I've seen advanced "geographic tongue" healed in two months. What's advanced geographic tongue, you ask? It's a tongue that looks like a map and burns like heck. Yeast does that...it is nasty and probably ends up killing 70% of us or more.

The best to you.

Kelley Eidem

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