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[Jerry B <liberty AT kaballero.com>]

Lynn wrote:

I think that a LOT of diseases could be cured by proper diet and 
exercise. Especially type 2 diabetes and the auto-immune diseases...I 
think these are a direct result of the modern American lifestyle. If 
everything crashes and people are forced to eat healthy food, walk and 
do more physical labor, and can't find cigarettes and alcohol, a lot of 
people would be better off might not need medications.
Lynn,

Exactly. There are so many positives associated with all the apparently 
dire things that are falling out around us. It probably all balances out 
in the 'end' with needed lessons learned as the next set of challenges 
surface.  My greatest concern now is that a few persons and species of 
life make it through beyond what is coming upon us and the world due to 
our own choices. The world is going to survive, I am not so sure about 
life, at least on it's surface. I do think now this is up to us humans, 
not 'fate' or supernatural forces.

It is not easy to walk away from dietary habits deeply embedded in our 
various cultures. Enjoyable true, but with a heavy price.  The fact that 
there is not a consensus by the 'experts' furthers the confusion 
regarding what we eat. One can only search and do the best one can OR, 
as you say, be forced into going without, proven many times over as a 
preventative and healer of 'unatural' disease. 

We have again taken to walking to our country mailbox,  what with the 
higher price for gasoline. With the blowup of my rototiller, the hoe has 
become a major source of almost daily exercise, and I think both I and 
the earthworms are better off for it.  Now if I can get to hand-digging 
again on my underground house, of ever growing attraction considering 
the days at hand,  I should then be in pretty good shape if it does not 
kill me first.  I do enjoy digging in our rock-free soil.  Jerry B