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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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........................
> >
> >
> >
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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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