Let them eat dirt : how microbes can make your child healthier
Finlay, B. Brett, 1959-2017
Books, Manuscripts
In the 200 years since we discovered that microbes cause infectious diseases, we've battled to keep them under control. But a recent explosion of scientific knowledge has led to undeniable evidence that early exposure to these organisms is beneficial to our children's well-being. Our modern lifestyle, with its emphasis on hyper-cleanliness, is having a negative effect on our children's lifelong health. In this engaging and important book, microbiologists B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta explain how the trillions of microbes that live in and on our bodies influence childhood development and why an imbalance in those microbes can lead to obesity, diabetes and asthma, among other chronic conditions.
Main title:
Let them eat dirt : how microbes can make your child healthier / B. Brett Finlay, PhD, Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD.
Author:
Finlay, B. Brett, 1959-, authorArrieta, Marie-Claire, author
Imprint:
London : Windmill Books, 2017.
Collation:
xiii, 288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Originally published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099510970 (pbk)
Dewey class:
649.4649.4 FIN
Language:
English
BRN:
2540999