RE: Disease and Healthy Food

Walker Bennett (WBennett@caldwellspartin.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:01:38 -0400

Paul:
Probably a combination of 'a' and 'c' mixed with comments from an
earlier post regarding the fact that antibiotics have 'killed off' many of
the bacteria that were sensitive to them, allowing the resistant strains to
multiply and flourish.
There are actually very few 'new' diseases in the world, just
stronger outbreaks of the old ones. Even HTLV3 (or HIV) appears to be a
variation off the African Green Monkey virus which has been known since
early this century.
The fact that we are seeing more diseases jumping species could also
be through the fact that since we have decided to contaminate the
environment to the extent we have, the conditions which were good for the
natural controls against certain virii and bacteria are no longer optimal.

Walker Bennett
wbennett@caldwellspartin.com <mailto:wbennett@caldwellspartin.com>
wabennett@gw.total-web.net <mailto:wabennett@gw.total-web.net>
w_bennett@msn.com <mailto:w_bennett@msn.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmitmeyer [mailto:ps@erinet.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:31 AM
To: Sanet
Subject: Disease and Healthy Food

Hi all,
Something has been nagging at me for quite sometime. When people say
"There are more and more diseases all the time", is it because:
a) we couldn't identify them before
b) we truely are a sicker nation due to sicker foods.
c) we are living longer so as we get older we are more prone to other
disease
d) previosly people were thought to die from "old age"(somewhat like answer
in a.)
e) we have more diseases because people would have died from some of the
other more common diseases first.
f) all the above.

The reason I bring this up is in an earlier post, there was a question
about the nutritional values in food, organic vs conventional.
Is there any way of looking up statistics and comparing health since the
introduction of the chemical world?
I am lead to believe from earlier post and other inputs from othere
people that one answer "f" is the best but that answer "b" is a huge
contributor.

Comments please?

Thanks,
Paul

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