PravdaMainForum... Quote I have drawn two compelling observations from my service as the program director of two national cholesterol conferences and my participation in three others over the past decade. First, a great deal is known about what factors are responsible for causing coronary artery disease (CAD) and what populations are vulnerable. Second, the present emphasis on identifying risk factors and those who are particularly vulnerable to atherosclerotic disease will not resolve the cardiovascular epidemic, which currently threatens one of every two Americans and is predicted to become the number one global disease burden by the year 2020.
Autopsy data from the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, the Bogalusa study, and the Pathological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) study all testify to the ubiquitous nature of the disease in young Americans. Recently, intra-arterial ultrasonography confirmed that “normal” segments in patients with CAD also have diffuse symmetric atherosclerosis, which is not yet disfiguring the intraluminal diameter and thus is invisible on angiography. This work is further confirmation of the Roberts autopsy data, which demonstrate that essentially all patients with ischemic heart disease have triple-vessel involvement.
However, CAD is virtually absent in cultures that eat plant-based diets, such as the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico, the Papua highlanders of New Guinea, and the inhabitants of rural China10 and central Africa.11 Hundreds of thousands of rural Chinese live for years without a single documented myocardial infarction.
Modern North Americans and Europeans pride themselves on having the world's most advanced medical care. What are these health care systems doing about CAD?
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Maybe the Africans were just dying early of other diseases and so never lived long enough to get heart disease? No. In the video One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic, you can see the age-matched heart attack rates in Uganda versus St. Louis. Out of 632 autopsies in Uganda, only one myocardial infarction. Out of 632 Missourians—with the same age and gender distribution—there were 136 myocardial infarctions. More than 100 times the rate of our number one killer. In fact, researchers were so blown away that they decided to do another 800 autopsies in Uganda. Still, just that one small healed infarct (meaning it wasn’t even the cause of death) out of 1,427 patients. Less than one in a thousand, whereas in the U.S., it’s an epidemic.
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Tom Bombadil
Good of you to stop in and share this, Mirror Man. :kowt: I think you also shared a great video earlier on You-Know-Where featuring a speech by a doctor who was addressing deficiencies in vegan and vegetarian diets, same as in the usual meaty diet, in this country leading to coronary heart disease. It's tragic that people have been dying young and needing all of this medical intervention over a low quality diet in the world's wealthiest nation!
Is it corporate influence that keeps people buying crap? Sadly no, most likely, as many people simply eat what they like, just as many choose to puff on cigarettes in full knowledge of will happen as a consequence of that.
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If humans evolved from a cross of omnivorous chimp and an ancient (plant-eater) pig as postulated by geneticist Gene McCarthy then meat should be OK.
Athens, Georgia geneticist Gene McCarthy says many, many people already believe this, including quite a few scientists and physicians. And there are also many, many crosses other than mouse x rat, and moreover ones involving more disparate partners, that do produce hybrids. If you wish to confirm this last statement, I invite you to take a look through my online reference on mammalian hybrids
http://www.macroevolution.net/mammalian-hybrids.html#11
which is fully documented, and you will see. However, I cannot debate you here. My arguments and evidence are already offered on my website
http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
he first made the assumption, based on chimpanzees being our closest living relative, that the chimpanzee would likely have been one of the two parents in the cross. He then made a list of all the characteristics that distinguish us from the chimpanzees. That list he realized would describe the traits of the second parent, if it still existed.
Among them: largely hairless skin, a comparable layer of fat beneath the skin, thermoregulatory sweating, light-colored eyes, a protruding rubbery (cartilaginous) nose, vocal cords, heavy eyelashes, humanlike molars, a short pelvis, a curved sacrum with short dorsal spines, similarities in the structure of the kidneys and other internal organs, tiny hooves (called ungual tuberosities) just beneath the skin on the tips of our fingers and toes, and a wide variety of other features. Photo of a leopan
This leopon is an example of an animal hybrid: a cross between a leopard and lion (From macroevolution.net
All characteristics except two—big brain and upright posture—turned out to be present in pigs. McCarthy was shocked. Looking further, he found anatomical characteristics in either pigs or chimps that when combined in a hybrid would produce an increase in brain size and allow that hybrid to walk erect. Everything seemed to fit.
As you probably know, pig heart valves and pig skin tissue are used in surgeries because of their compatibility with the human body.
http://saportareport.com/mccarthy_human_pig_chimp_evolution/