Jack May wrote:
> "bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Amy Blankenship wrote:
>>> "Jack May" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>> "Kevan Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>>>> [email protected] (Matthew Russotto) wrote:
>
>> Also no shortage of processed food that is now working to shorten people's
>> lives.
>
> I just got through reading the summary in New Scientist of a large research
> project to determine what foods have a statistically significant effect on
> health. The only things that have a statistically significant effect on
> health are sugar, salt, and fat. I think there was a fourth thin but I
> don't remember if there was are not.
Trans fatty acids? Direct cholesterol intake, I.E. eggs?
>
> The study toughly disproved all the superstitions about food like your
> processed food shortening people's lives, etc. Life span has been
> increasing for many years. All these theories just can not be shown to be
> statistically significant.
Life span was increasing but from what I have seen is now decreasing.
Medical intervention has obviously gotten better as well as nutritional
education, but work has gone from energy expended to keyboards typed,
not good for an exercise oriented body. The obesity plague is a definite
problem with many people developing diabetes early on. Add to that the
fact that more women are smokers and things add up. Two people I know
have died in the last two years, and both were or should have been
preventable. My wife's best friend and my best friend's wife, same
person, had mild diabetes from overweight, so her immune system was down
and she got both a flu infection and pneumonia within about 3 days. She
was dead at 55 within 24 hours. A neighbor behind me was a smoker and
held the belief that whatever she did to herself the doctor would have a
pill for. She had a virtual (literal) pharmacy in her kitchen cabinets.
Pat was only 53 when she had a thrombosis in her lung that killed her in
about two hours flat. My wife is 60 now and still smokes so where does
that leave me at 58 and perfectly healthy from riding and never smoking?
Probably single the hard way within a decade. Life span only increased
with medical advances, not by sitting in front of a television or a
stressed out day in a cubicle with a computer.
>
>
>>> So are gorilla eyes. They eat plants.
>> It is a predator/prey kind of thing, and in that point of view gorillas
>> are not likely to be prey. Do you think the 600 pound gorilla gives a hoot
>> about what is behind him? It is only the other kind of ape that the
>> gorilla needs to worry about, the human kind.
>
> True. Same with whales which are evolving differently than predators and
> prey.
>
If we give them the chance to evolve we could have some intelligent life
right here on earth to talk to. I think if we could break the language
barrier we might have some surprises coming. Whales may pass along
knowledge verbally since they can't have a written language, and their
brains are larger than ours. Could get interesting.
Bill Baka