15/12/02 9:29:44 PM, David Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: snip Infant mortality is lower now than >in Paleo times because (one reason) of a safer food supply >-David Is there evidence for this? I'd assumed that population was controlled by other than disease. After all, they had never heard of the "missionary position". > >> Gotta agree with Rob on this one. Having lived in the third >> world, and been sick every couple of weeks for the first >> year, I can say that food borne pathogens are serious >> business. A friend almost died, and several aqauintance's >> > I've had very little exposure to the third world, but have eaten stuff there that would have been better raw. At least I would have been able to guess a what it was. BTW my first ever raw hamburger was in a restaurant in Holland, notorious for cleanliness. Cook to 165 indeed! :) William