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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

It's never too late. In Pollan's book, he writes about a study done on 
Australian aborigines. They had moved into villages and adopted a Western 
lifestyle; type 2 diabetes was rampant. The investigator took a few people 
(10? 15?) with diabetes and put them back 'in the wild' for 7 weeks. They 
had to find their own food, as their people had until they 'Westernized'. At 
the end of 7 weeks, they showed remarkable improvement in all the things 
they measured....blood sugat, glucose tolerance, triglycerides, etc. Some 
had 'normal' readings. He doesn't say what happened next; I suspect they 
went back to being Westernized.  An alternate lifestyle isn't easy to 
maintain, but it's a good lesson that we can take responsibility for our own 
health.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA, where I just shoveled 8 inches of beautiful fresh snow.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease


> 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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