I eat dirt

They always say, "things were better/different then." I know my dad talks a lot about simpler times, and how kids used to just wake up and go outside to find something to do. Kids would just play with sticks and dirt, sometimes getting it under their fingers and into their mouths. Kids were always covered in mud. At least, I was. And now, it may be that the mud was good for us.

"Rates of depression in younger people have steadily grown to outnumber rates of depression in the older populations and researchers think it may be because of a loss of healthy bacteria."

Kids now a days (now I sound old) are just sitting around inside playing Wii, using the internet, and texting their friends instead of going outside and making up games. Besides being couch bound, which is horrible for your health, it makes them less able to protect themselves from depression because they don't get that dirt!

So send your kids, and yourself, outside for a bit. Leave your wired world behind and make a fort. Get some dirt under your nails. Eat it.