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

Oh, I love snow. I even love shoveling it. For now, anyway. Ask again in 
March.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Amish and heart disease


> 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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