"Stress is interest you pay on a debt you don't owe." One of my favorite quotes...
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 11:41 AM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Touche, Peter. It also helps to have a pet. My black 18 pound kitty has > taught me an entirely new language, consisting of a single syllable > delivered 1,000 different ways. > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 8:57 AM Peter Frederick via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > The real problem with medical research is that since Reagan cut all the > > funding for basic research, the only source of funding is pharmaceutical > > companies and for-profit distributors. > > > > The results, of course, are heavily biased toward medical inteventions. > > Same way most crop research is conducted by chemical companies -- the > > solution for ALL farm issues is more chemical applications. No profit in > > keeping people healthy or reducing chemical usage (by breeding fungus > > resistant corn instead of drowning the country in Daconil, which is the > > current issue here). > > > > Americans have more heart attacks because they lead high stress, low > > exercise lives and eat chemically altered and adulterated "food" instead > of > > fresh food with minimal additives. And the vast majority are morbidly > > obese for the same reasons. > > > > Genetics play a big role too -- heart disease does run in families and if > > you don't have a genetic propensity it probably doesn't matter what you > do, > > and if you do have heart disease on both sides you may not escape it. > I'm > > lucky, we all seem to have gotten my mother's side's hearts. My dad died > > after a big heart attack in 1976, and his father had a series of strokes > > and heart attacks that killed him in 1950 at the same age. > > > > Eat well, exercise, and do what you can to reduce stress. > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
