OT: Longevity

[Puke]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The apple is a bastardized derivation of the saying.

We should conquer a quarter of the world to make our Version stick, like the English did for Aluminium.

[dogscoff]

"To put things in perspective, smoking one cigarette a day isn't as bad as eating a peanut-butter sandwich a day and neither of those are as bad as breathing city air for a day."

Yeah, city air is disgusting. I live in a first-floor flat right above a main road in the inner city. I probably get over a thousand vehicles pass within a few metres of my flat every day. You woulnd't believe the crud that accumulates on our windows, windowsills & curtains.

Still, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else- except maybe in a bigger, dirtier ciy=-) Also, one of these days we are all going to switch to zero-emission (or at least zero-LOCAL-emission) LPG/electric/hydro/fission powered cars and a great many health problems will virtually disappear overnight.

And the big problem with the peanut butter is the saturated fat content- clogs up yer arteries very quickly. I'm not allowed to eat peanut butter any more=-(

[Gandalf Parker]

On any scale, any extreme is bad. Every action is somewhere on the scale from something else. Everything that is good for you is also bad for you. Too much AND too little of darkness, sunlight, food, water, oxygen, even vitamin C, can kill you. Man did not just develop the ability to thrive with variety. He developed requiring it.

[QuarianRex]

One thing that I picked up in neuro-psych class was that if you severely restrict carb intake (as in Atkins is a bread munching fool) for the first (human equivalent) six years of life you will double the life span of the animal. This seems to be pretty uniersal among mammals (experiments have been done with rats, dogs, etc.).

Why haven't you seen this with people yet? Two reasons. One, you have to essentially starve your kids till their seventh birthday (just to be safe). Few parents are willing to see their kids be hungry. What about poor countries where people are always hungry? That leads to the second reason. If the strict diet is broken, even once or twice, the efect is ruined. Even in the poorest of countries there are there are the occasional moments of plenty, and children tend to get as much as the parents can scrounge together.

Intersting, don't you think?