Re: evolution and diet (was: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise)

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 18:22:08 MDT

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    Ramez Naam wrote:
    > From: Brian Atkins [mailto:brian@posthuman.com]
    >
    >>Here is quote from an old 1950's diet book I was browsing:
    >>
    >>"In 1921 coronary thrombosis was a rarity and accounted for only 746
    >
    >
    >>male deaths in Britain. In 1956 the figure was 45,000. It is
    >>still going up."
    >
    >
    > Hmmm. I simply do not believe that statistic. It's inconsistent with
    > other data from that time period. For example in the US in 1921,
    > 137,000 people died of heart disease, out of a total of about 1
    > million deaths in the US that year.
    >
    > Let me summarize the CDCs statistics for US causes of death in 1921.
    > In descending order of incidence:
    >

    Ramez I was talking about a specific form of heart disease (myocardial
    infarction, aka heart attack), not in general. I agree that in general,
    other forms of heart disease were common before 1930. However I don't
    agree that heart attacks were. I googled around, and still can't find
    actual data from that time period, but another site I ran across says
    that in the USA there were only roughly 3k deaths from MI in 1930, which
    jumped to 500k+ by 1960.

    http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/hd.html 

    -- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

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