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

In talk.origins  I read this message from Paul J Gans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>In talk.origins Klaus Hellnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>"maff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> SAD, but true: introducing the Stone Age Diet
>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=468583
>>>
>>> Scientists say that for good health we should adopt the eating habits
>>> of cavemen. It could become a mammoth craze...
>>> By Roger Dobson
>>> 30 November 2003
>>>
>>>
>>> Forget Atkins, abandon the other modern fads, and get stuck into the
>>> Stone Age diet.
>>>
>>> It may be more than a million years old, but a regime of organic meat,
>>> or a leg of game bird, accompanied by fresh leaves, nuts and fruit,
>>> washed down with water, is just about perfect for the human body.
>>>
>>> Stone Age Diet
>>>
>>http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Stone+Age+diet%22&sa=N&tab=wn
>>>
>>>
>>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Stone+Age+diet%22&sa=N&tab=nw
>>>
>>>
>>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Stone+Age+diet%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
>>>
>>>
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Stone%20Age%20diet&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
>>>
>
>>What a maroon!
>>"Archaeological evidence suggests that Stone Age man did not suffer from
>>heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases. "
>>I guess the fact that most of these conditions are linked to age and we live
>>3 times as long as the "healthy" paleolithic hunter-gatherers never entered
>>his mind.
>>Klaus
>
>That's not clear.  I've read that the average life expectancy
>was lower in groups that settled in villages as compared to
>hunter-gatherers.
>
>And comparison to today is decidedly unfair.  Our increased
>life expectancy is due more to the development of drugs that
>actually cure diseases, better medical technique, etc.  Food
>likely has less to do with it.

Our recent increase in life expectancy is due to the availability
of clean water. Water for drinking and cleaning does more to
prevent disease than drugs do to cure them.