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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Is western disease better or wotse than eastern disease?  Click on the link, 
you will find most western countries near the top for life expectancy, and 
most of the ones near the bottom are not western.  I am not arguing, just 
pointing at the other side.  I still think like Marie or someone else said a 
week or two ago that a few simple things cause 'most' of the really bad 
health issues in the west, tobacco and booze, and then a combination of 
immoderate eating and sedentary lives, but Marie could be wrong , 
too.............

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy


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--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 6:33 AM
> I just finished reading In Defense of Food, by Michael
> Pollan (I got it for 
> my sister for Christmas and read it before I wrapped it).
> It reinforces my 
> ideas more than ever that it's NOT genetics, but
> lifestyle and diet that 
> causes "Western diseases". I was so happy to see
> that he cites people like 
> Rodale and Weston Price. The studies show over and over
> that when a culture 
> (any culture) is introduced to Western food and lifestyle,
> the incident of 
> Western diseases goes up..
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:03 AM
> Subject: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease
> 
> 
> > There has been some recent conversation on the list
> regarding the Amish; I 
> > thought this articvle might interest some
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > U.S. Amish gene trait may inspire heart protection
> >
> > Fri Dec 12,
> >
> > 4:46 am ET Reuters –
> >
> > An Amish horse and buggy are seen in a file photo.
> (Neal Lauron/Reuters)
> >
> > WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A rare genetic abnormality
> found in people in an 
> > insular Amish community protects them from heart
> disease, a discovery that 
> > could lead to new drugs to prevent heart ailments,
> U.S. researchers said 
> > on Thursday.
> >
> > About 5 percent of Old Order Amish people in
> Pennsylvania's Lancaster 
> > County have only one working copy rather than the
> normal two of a gene 
> > that makes a protein that slows the breakdown of
> triglycerides, a type of 
> > fat that circulates in the blood, the researchers
> wrote in the journal 
> > Science.
> >
> > "People who have the mutation all have low
> triglycerides," said Toni 
> > Pollin of the University of Maryland School of
> Medicine in Baltimore, who 
> > led the study.
> >
> > "This gives us clues that ultimately could
> develop future treatments."
> >
> > Triglycerides naturally disappear more quickly in
> these people than in 
> > people without this gene mutation.
> >
> > High triglyceride levels, often due to a high-fat
> diet, can contribute to 
> > hardening and narrowing of the arteries, raising the
> risk of heart attack, 
> > heart disease and stroke.
> >
> > New drugs might target this gene, called APOC3, to
> decrease the amount of 
> > the protein it produces, Pollin said in an interview.
> >
> > Pollin and colleagues looked at the genes of about 800
> Amish people, 
> > finding that about one in 20 had the mutation, and
> they also had lower 
> > triglycerides and less risk of cardiovascular disease.
> >
> > They also had high levels of HDL-cholesterol, the
> so-called good 
> > cholesterol, and low levels of LDL-cholesterol, the
> so-called bad 
> > cholesterol.
> >
> > Having only one working copy of APOC3 left people with
> half the normal 
> > level of the protein the gene makes.
> >
> > "The Old Order Amish are ideal for genetic
> research because they are a 
> > genetically homogenous people who trace their ancestry
> back 14 generations 
> > to a small group that came to Pennsylvania from Europe
> in the mid-1700s," 
> > Dr. Alan Shuldiner, one of the researchers, said in a
> statement.
> >
> > Since then, the devoutly Christian Amish have largely
> kept to themselves 
> > in close-knit farming communities, typically marrying
> other Amish people. 
> > Amish communities also are found in Ohio, Indiana and
> elsewhere.
> >
> > The researchers believe this genetic mutation was
> introduced into the 
> > Lancaster Amish population by a person born in the
> mid-1700s, and the 
> > trait seems to be very rare or completely absent in
> the general 
> > population.
> >
> >
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/hl_nm/us_heart_gene
> >
> >
> >
> >
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