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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:01:12 -0800 (PST)

I just posted the link to the stats. I wish I has never smoked and had never
eaten margarine. But, I did........................


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--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 6:58 AM
> > >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
> >
>
> It's not 'the other side' it's a red
> herring. Thrown into the stats are
> high rates of infant and childhood death. If you had a
> population of 10 people
> in a 'delveloped' country who all lived to 75, the
> life expectancy is 75. But
> if you had a country where one of those people died when he
> was two days old
> (this is common) and the other 9 lived to be 80, then the
> life epectancy is
> 72. It appears to be longer in the 'developed'
> country when in fact people
> routinely die earlier.
>
> Also in 'developed' countries we keep barely
> breathing cadavers alive for
> weeks, months, and even years making it look as if they
> lived a lot longer than
> they actally did.
>
>
> James
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