Farm life the secret to healthy living?

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All right -- bonus in the United States it seems like a seasoned and reasoned from the cold and flu and the other half seems to be okay.

Right if you wheezing and try to keep it down his other people -- I was in this segment.

It turns out there's a lot of research that the best medicine of modern health.

Could be as close as the barn -- the shed.

Third generation cattle farmer.

Senior agriculture business that North Carolina State University relieved once -- joins us right now.

Rosie how people on the farm -- -- all these germs suddenly less sick than most everybody else.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- We eat and I -- work really hard on the -- him.

-- -- we worked really hard on the fire and I'm going out every morning and thinking of the cattle before arrested the great.

And and we're very active out -- -- not sitting in front of the television union at -- how a lot of other children did.

And say we're out there we're feeding our animals were taking care of then thinking of them very -- that's a lot -- NATO help.

And I'll say we're just really physically acted.

I hear -- you know rusty there a couple of the statue -- at a site for folks first of all if you live on a farm your four times families are four times.

-- less likely to have asthma also apparently your four times less likely to have hay fever.

And it wouldn't you know if you're exposed to that stuff all the time it you know when you're out there.

-- -- -- stuff like that when I was growing up when your round the stuff all the time.

It would make sense that it is essentially you just wind up not being affected by if you're lucky.

Right and there's I mean there's times it did bacteria and that bacteria and and being on the -- unit -- downed a lot of different things that.

People in the normal society don't get to be hearing -- -- an offset -- -- cattle -- to go all around the country.

And on being with different people from all gave her the United States so I'm gaining energy so a lot of -- either on.

Outside factors that -- school friends they gave it.

-- to right and when you have pure -- and using constantly that might be great.

Which are not building up the immunity to fight that flu bug that might be you know -- Out there.

Right exactly right and eat it we get our hands very easily get out there.

To the barn every day -- -- in -- -- and with enough that I Sergei ends.

You can eat that line stance.

Yeah we.

Thanks to clean -- up for us trusting that's right eighty -- if it farm families is turns out.

-- you all right very good Q during this today from our DC bureau more.

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