Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil... (Mario Goveia)
This thread reminded me of a poster behind my life insurance agent's desk. It went some thing like this: Once there lived a man who led a clean life. He did not drink, smoke, or womanize. He did see movies, listen to music, or dance. He did not fight, and he did not love. And then one day he suddenly died. When his heirs made a claim on his life insurance, it was denied. The insurance company said they could not make a claim since the man had never lived. The moral of the poster is that every thing in moderation is good. My family from mother's side settled in Bombay early 1900s. Most of them died before 65 or so even though they did not eat much coconuts. Mostly from heart attacks, cancers. My father's side, most were in the Mangalore area which they never left. For them, eating coconuts five times a day was religion. But most lived to be close to 100, and some lived beyond for a few years. My mother came to Mangalore area some time after marrying. She is close to 90 and still active (no compromises on coconuts). But with each passing day she finds herself lonely, with even her nephews and nieces passing on. I keep telling my wife coconuts are not bad, but with no effect. Says something about life. Jagdish
Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil... (Mario Goveia)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:11:03 -0500 From: Jagdish Gangolly gango...@gmail.com I keep telling my wife coconuts are not bad, but with no effect. Mario responds: I will leave it to Jose or Santosh to explain why you have an intelligent wife, and you don't even seem to realize it:-)) Also, make sure a coconut doesn't fall on your head, which will surely be a lesson on whether they are bad or not bad:-))
Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil... (Mario Goveia)
The post appended below provides us with an important lesson. The moral of the story told in it is, please do not rely on anecdotes. What they tell you cannot be generalized. The reason for this is very simple. Most things in life and about life are very complicated, including the genes that prolong it. Cheers, Santosh ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This work is supported by the Pandurang Project. The Pandurang Project is a charitable activity of the post-presidency of President Pandurang of Chimbel. It is an adult science literacy drive to provide free remedial education to a cyber-audience whose members have been ill-served by their browser, inbox and spam filter. --- On Sun, 12/6/09, Jagdish Gangolly gango...@gmail.com wrote: It went some thing like this: Once there lived a man who led a clean life. He did not drink, smoke, or womanize. He did see movies, listen to music, or dance. He did not fight, and he did not love. And then one day he suddenly died. When his heirs made a claim on his life insurance, it was denied. The insurance company said they could not make a claim since the man had never lived. The moral of the poster is that every thing in moderation is good. My family from mother's side settled in Bombay early 1900s. Most of them died before 65 or so even though they did not eat much coconuts. Mostly from heart attacks, cancers. My father's side, most were in the Mangalore area which they never left. For them, eating coconuts five times a day was religion. But most lived to be close to 100, and some lived beyond for a few years. My mother came to Mangalore area some time after marrying. She is close to 90 and still active (no compromises on coconuts). But with each passing day she finds herself lonely, with even her nephews and nieces passing on. I keep telling my wife coconuts are not bad, but with no effect. Says something about life. Jagdish
Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil... (Mario Goveia)
Most sensible utterances I have ever heard on this thread. Jagdish, I thank you. floriano goasuraj 9890470896 - Original Message - From: Jagdish Gangolly gango...@gmail.com To: goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil... (Mario Goveia) This thread reminded me of a poster behind my life insurance agent's desk. It went some thing like this: Once there lived a man who led a clean life. He did not drink, smoke, or womanize. He did see movies, listen to music, or dance. He did not fight, and he did not love. And then one day he suddenly died. When his heirs made a claim on his life insurance, it was denied. The insurance company said they could not make a claim since the man had never lived. The moral of the poster is that every thing in moderation is good. My family from mother's side settled in Bombay early 1900s. Most of them died before 65 or so even though they did not eat much coconuts. Mostly from heart attacks, cancers. My father's side, most were in the Mangalore area which they never left. For them, eating coconuts five times a day was religion. But most lived to be close to 100, and some lived beyond for a few years. My mother came to Mangalore area some time after marrying. She is close to 90 and still active (no compromises on coconuts). But with each passing day she finds herself lonely, with even her nephews and nieces passing on. I keep telling my wife coconuts are not bad, but with no effect. Says something about life. Jagdish
