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Re: GETTING SHORTER

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  1. Lictor said:

    "jt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Well considering most people do not eat a lot of fruits or


    vegetables

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    I don't see the relevance. A diet of 70% good carbs 20% good fats


    not

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    saturated animal fats and 10% protein is not going stunt anyone's
    growth.

    20% is very low, few of the countries with the highest life


    expectancy go

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    that low. You run the risk of various deficiencies (vitamins,


    essential

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    fatty acids, taste...).

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    Well I believe that has more to do with cross-breading. You go to
    Europe and the women are much more beautiful on average than an
    American women. But Italians breed with Italians French with


    French.

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    You do have a weird idea of racial purity in Europe... FYI, France is


    about

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    as multi-racial as the USA. The tradition of being a country of


    immigration

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    here is at least as strong as in the USA, the country has always


    known waves

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    of immigrants, from the Polish and Italian of early 20th century to


    the

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    North and Black Africans in the 1950s and later, and the various


    invasions

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    in medieval times.

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    Its the same with dogs pure breed is much better than a mutt.

    You have obviously never seen an Eurasian or African-caucassian metis
    woman... Or even mixes with North African or Indian people...
    As for animals, there is such a thing as hybrid vigor. Pure breeds


    tend to

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    be a lot more fragile than mixed-breeded animals, because


    cross-breeding

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    promotes genetics diseases through indirect incest. Just check the


    overall

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    health of islanders, it's often catastrophic.

    I think that in this respect you are not right. Just think about people
    living in Crete or in Japan. Also in Finland, where I live, the longest
    lived people live in the island of Åland. I think that the consumption
    of fish and the intake of omega-3 fatty acids outweight more in the
    health of these islanders than lack of genetic mixture.

    Jan

  2. "Jan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    I think that the consumption
    of fish and the intake of omega-3 fatty acids outweight more in the
    health of these islanders than lack of genetic mixture.
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    Probably, but the previous poster seemed to be thinking that genetics (and
    in that case, gene pollution from non-caucassian sources) was accountable
    for lack of health. I was just pointing to a few cases where it was
    obviously not the case.
    Nutrition certainly plays a stronger role than genetics. It is actually
    quite possible that an inbred population with a rampant genetic deffect
    learns over time to tune its nutrition to offset it. The Pima Native
    Americans are a classical exemple of that, they were surviving quite fine
    despite their hereditary diabete before they were switched off their
    traditionnal diet onto the American one.

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