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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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