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"I can&amp;#039;t recall how many times some sort of childhood affliction has either been credited to or blamed on childcare. Whether emotional, social or physical, the Day Care Theory always seems to come back around. The latest? Childcare can prevent Leukemia. Supporting the theory that children exposed to common infections early in life gain protection from disease, research presented at the Causes and Prevention of Childhood Leukemia conference in London suggests that children who attend day care or play groups decrease their risk of developing the most common type of childhood leukemia by 30 percent. According to Sanjaya Gupta, CNN Chief medical correspondent, &amp;quot;If kids are kept isolated, their immune systems aren&amp;#039;t challenged early in life, and they may not develop normally.&amp;quot; Interestingly, the study looked at towns in Britain that were relatively remote based on the &amp;quot;farm kids&amp;quot; theory; children who grow up on farms, says William Woods, MD, and who are not exposed to normal child illnesses at some point between 2 and 6 years of age, have a much higher incidence of childhood Leukemia than, say, kids who grew up in New York City.  I&amp;#039;ve always wondered how I might deal with the &amp;quot;germ&amp;quot; situation with my own kids. Though I&amp;#039;m in no way a germophobe now, the fact that I&amp;#039;m worrying about how clean I&amp;#039;ll keep my kids&amp;#039; hands before I&amp;#039;m even anywhere close to having kids is perhaps revealing of how I may handle it\u2014neurotically. That said, and if nothing else, this theory holds a calming incentive\u2014that germs and bacteria aren&amp;#039;t all bad. Perhaps we should be letting our children hold onto the subway railings after all. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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