--- Ashley Moran <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This very obvious, simple,
> don't-look-at-it-too-long-or-you-will-go-
> blind fact seems to evade the whole of western
> medicine.  Why the
> medical beast hasn't stopped and thought "hang on,
> how did we get to
> be the dominant species if our whole evolutionary
> life we were the
> sickest and weakest animals on the planet?" still
> baffles me.  Maybe
> we've been conditioned into believing sickness is
> normal.  I suppose
> previously the prevailing theory would have been
> that it was
> punishment from [insert relevant deity here].
>
> I brought this up once to womain I worked with, and
> explained how
> much disease diet causes and she said "that can't be
> right or we'd
> all be sick all the time."  Ironically at the time,
> the woman who sat
> opposite was off with a recurrent random nose-bleed
> but people don't
> consider that unusual.  I can't see how paleo will
> take off
> mainstream because Atkins offers most of the weight
> loss benefits,
> and people are so blind about the state of our
> health they don't even
> see the NEED for improvement.
>
> Ashley
>


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