First ..at long last some easy going days...
Second.. "Epic" results are starting to trickle in... the first serious (I would say scientific) effort to check the claim of alternative/vegetarian/eating behavior community.
Prepare for some surprises... because so far the alternative life style claims are being corroborated in incredible ways. So far, the claims of vegetarians and other groups are sustained for reasons that we actuallys still not know...and which ar enot actually what those group said.. but never mind.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-blood-cancer-diet-risk
Epic is going to come back with more data...and present level of meat consumption (more than 100 gr per day) are looking increasingly like tobacco. At least, blood type cancer are getting epidiomologic risk of the order of magnitude of tobacco.. and you know I only trust epidiomology studies when they give these kind of numbers...Otherwise I will still defend that most of our medicine (official and alternative) is basically faith-based.
Let's recap: First hygiene, then high quantities of calories, then desinfectants, then antibiotycs, then tobacco reduction.. all of it pushed us towards the 70-80 margin (not drugs or any medicine) and now it seems that strong meat reduction could improve our quality of life inmensively (could we reach the 90-100?)
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
After all, more women than men choose vegetarianism. Some have suggested that this is because women tend towards having more nerve receptors generally and so have more sensitive palettes that show greater appreciation for the subtle flavours of veggies or they are overwhelmed by the strong flavours in red meat cookery (whichever). Now there could be something that whatever it is that stunts the growth of male nerve physiology also makes men more prone to cancer.
But that hasn't been tested. They have highlighted an interesting correlation that deserves investigation. It does, however, not show that meat eating is cancerous. keep to the Fen Causeway
This project doe not have the standard tones of problem of other research.
No gender role biased, no "other inclinations" biased. this is the first serious stuff.
Ont he other hand I have never read anything like the division you say.. there are cultures where woman take all meat.
I met a doctor recently who was conducting a study on rates of recovery from childhood leukemia. They were lowest in England, highest in Japan and very high in Korea and Venezuela, where he was from. Common dietary factor in the places where rates of recovery were high: seaweed.
i'd bet most of the healthy ingredients of fish are found in sea veggies, and kelp -kombu- grows fast. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Someone tell Michael Bloomberg, too. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
