Re: SAD, but true: introducing the Stone Age Diet

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:55:24 -0500, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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>"David Christainsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Friends,
>>
>> By Roger Dobson
>> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=468583
>>
>> "Archaeological evidence suggests that Stone Age man did not suffer
>> from heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases.
>> He was not obese, and had no allergies or high blood pressure. As the
>> researchers say in the Journal of Nutritional & Environmental
>> Medicine: 'Available evidence suggests that obesity, hypertension,
>> diabetes and cardiovascular disease are rare or unknown in populations
>> preserving traditional subsistence and lifestyle patterns.'"
>>
>> Best regards,
>> David Christainsen
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>On the other hand they make no claim as to how long Stone Age man lived. He probably 
>did
>not live long enough for these diseases to develop, the traditional short and brutish
>life.
>
Pneumonia probably claimed many.



Eric Stevens