unaccountable increase in diseases

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Some claim autism has increased, but that is debatable.

Obesity - I don't think we can argue that this has not increased even

with the change in the BMI evaluation in the early 90s. I also tend

to be very skeptical that obesity has increased due to diet or lack

of exercise. Studies indicate that certain viruses cause obesity in

mice and humans.

As to cfs or fms, there is no debate this is a massive increase of a

new disease at an elemental level. I say this, not because of

worldwide stats but because of the reality that I lived 30 years in

one small town in South Carolina. Most people didn't move away, and

new people didn't move in.

In that time frame our elders lived active lives with a few cases of

arthritis, one case of lupus, heart disease and cancer. They died

after and active life of heart disease or cancer or stroke.

Currently or in 1997, 100 women would show up for fibromyalgia

support group meetings in a town of 10,000 including the outlying

county.

Need I add that there is an epidemic level of increase in Lyme

disease in may areas of the US.

a Carnes

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> I thought you made some great points, . And since so many more

people get health care now and so many more people's diseases are

being reported, there's not a lot of evidence that we're sicker now.

My great grandfather probably died of cancer, but back then, people

didn't get dx'd and called it dying of " old age " .

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> I do believe that low grade infection is pretty rampant, based on

my conversations and observations, but whether it's worse now or not

is kind of hard to say. It used to be that some people were " sickly "

their whole lives, but it didn't seem as common as it does now, but

then again we didn't have the kind of communication back then that we

do now. Perhaps every family in every township or village had at

least one " sickly " person. A whole lot of people certainly died

younger than we do today. It's possible today's pwcs wouldn't have

lasted very long 50 years ago either.

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> penny

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> <usenethod@...> wrote:

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> > better enabling green technology available). However, we've still

> > introduced thousands of synthetic chemicals into the environment

in the

> > past two generations or so and we've barely studied their

combined

> > effects.

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> How does that matter, though, unless there are unaccountable disease

> increases over those two generations? In fact, if there aren't any

> such increases, it pretty much proves that those contaminations are

> not a cause of observable disease.

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> In addition to what I mentioned yesterday, cancer has increased, of

> course - but that basically goes away when you correct for the

> increased aging we see nowadays, so it's eminently explicable.

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