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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 06:47:23 -0800 (PST)

8 inches? Wow. I still think my idea about putting a ring of mirrors and
other glass around your property so that the sun's rays are optimized could
solve all of your snow problems. Like a big solar oven :-)

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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, 7:41 AM
> 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........................
> >
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > --- 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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