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> Do you recall, was it B12 that a doc advised the vegetarian Nearings  
> to take?
> 

Yes, which the Nearings claimed they did NOT take, but in fact they did.  In 
the book "Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life" the author reproduces the 
prescription for the injectable B-12 written for the Nearnings and the 
testimony 
of the nurse who adminstered it.

>Not enough room here, but what I took from my reading  
was that certain soils or water may in fact contain especially  
salubrious ingredients, and that vegetative diets, substantial  
physical activity, and low stress lifestyles are good.

I read those things too and the notion about 'certain soils or water'.  But 
when the investigators tried to find what was in common among all those 
sundry 
locations about the globe, they were flummoxed.  What the DID observe about 
all those populations was that almost all their food came from only a few 
hundred yards from where they lived.  It seemed it was food from the same 
source 
(albeit organic and low on the food chain for the most part as well) all 
their 
lives that was a determining factor.  Talk about locavores!




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