One comment on dietary gurus who die of causes their diet is supposed to prevent:  my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer eleven years after he quit smoking.  Eventual abstinence could not undo the damage already done, and I suspect the same may be true of diet.  

Andrea






> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:25:05 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Stone Age Humans Liked Their Burgers On A Bun--New Scientist article link
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> It always amazes me when dietary figureheads die, sometimes eating their last 
> words.   Remember when Nathan Pritikin died?     And then there was the passing 
> of Atkins.  Well, okay, the headline said he slipped on NYC sidewalk........  
> I'll never forget when my macrobiotic dietary guru at the time had to explain to 
> his followers why his wife, and daughter died within a year of each other of  
> cancer. How could this be, we wondered?  Didn't they eat this great  diet to a 
> tee?  ANd wait a minute... we were eating this diet too!!!   We were even told 
> by our teachers that if we ate macrobiotically,   it would be a " Like a State 
> Farm Umbrella"  - a life insurance policy so to speak, over our heads as far as 
> cancer was concerned. And  that macrobiotics was the best kept million dollar 
> secret.   The 'school/institute' he founded, and which I attend,   tried to keep 
> the family  deaths a secret for as long as possible so as not to dissuade us 
> from re-registering for another semester.  And this guy actually made it into 
> the Smithsonian Institute for his contribution to promoting a grain based diet 
> that led to the revised food pyramid.  I'll be polite and not mention names.  
> 
> 
> Yes, mortality is 100%.  Common sense, well, that waivers.  That's why I hope 
> that one day, Audette makes as much royalty from Neanderthin as  Ornish has 
> reaped.  Never give away the  power to reason,  or any power for that 
> matter....just continue to  develop good instinct and hope for the best.  
> 
> 
> Best,
> Batsheva
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> From: Jim Swayze 
> Forgive me for seeming flippant. It is not my intention at all.  But seeing how 
> the mortality rate remains at 100 percent, it seems to me the diet is always and 
> forever a tradeoff. 
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> 
> I believe the ultimate human diet is one that is high fat, moderate protein, and 
> very low carbohydrate for most of the year. It of course avoids all Neolithic 
> foods and might healthfully involve limited low glycemic, high fiber 
> carbohydrates in season. 
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> Vary from that at your own risk.
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