I really must start saying I use the dishwasher on environmental grounds
rather than out of sheer laziness!

"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> Ward Abbott wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:26:56 GMT, "Pete C." >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >which allows it
>> >to clean better and sanitize better than hand washing and an additional
>> >benefit is that it uses significantly less water
>>
>> Peter...we are in a "pickle" here. Having "some" germs in our body
>> create antibodies...which help us more than you know.
>>
>> A perfectly sterile environment probably does more damage than we can
>> permit. Building resistance to natural "germs" is how this planet
>> has been permitted to survive.
>>
>> Get off this "clean" freak tangent.
>
> Absolutely excessively clean environments harm our immune systems,
> however a dishwasher is a long way from creating a perfectly sterile
> environment. The water and energy savings are still a benefit as well.
>
> Pete C.