Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:29:51 EDT ChrisMasterjohn@... wrote: > I don't think any of Price's subjects smoked, but in Anthropology class, we > discussed the San of the Kalahari desert. They *loved* smoking when they > discovered it from visiting Europeans, and took up the habit. They had similar > disease profiles to Price's subjects, but suffered from venereal diseases and > tuberculosis that they developed from contact with Europeans. Their diet was > only 37% animal products, and based on mongongo nuts, so they may have had > lowered immunity from less animal products-- I don't know. They had no tooth decay, > no high blood pressure. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think heart > disease or cancer was mentioned. > > Chris > Hmmm...interesting that they still were protected frorm tooth decay despite their other problems. Do you happen to know what kind of animal products they were eating? War, the God That Failed http://tinyurl.com/2npch " They told just the same, That just because a tyrant has the might By force of arms to murder men downright And burn down house and home and leave all flat They call the man a captain, just for that. But since an outlaw with his little band Cannot bring half such mischief on the land Or be the cause of so much harm and grief, He only earns the title of a thief. " --Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale Eat fat, get thin... lift big, get small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 > Re: smoking primitives > > > > >On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:29:51 EDT >ChrisMasterjohn@... wrote: > >> I don't think any of Price's subjects smoked, did you read that somewhere, or are you guessing? I haven't seen this subject mentioned in NAPD. Do you think he'd have mentioned it, if they did? Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 In a message dated 8/29/04 8:39:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, s.fisher22@... writes: >> I don't think any of Price's subjects smoked, did you read that somewhere, or are you guessing? I haven't seen this subject mentioned in NAPD. Do you think he'd have mentioned it, if they did? ______ Just guessing. They may well have, I suppose, but I was assuming mostly because tobacco isn't widely native, to my understanding. But they could have smoked something else. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 In a message dated 8/29/04 8:39:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, s.fisher22@... writes: did you read that somewhere, or are you guessing? I haven't seen this subject mentioned in NAPD. Do you think he'd have mentioned it, if they did? _____ By the way, Price did his studies before all the hoopla about smoking and cancer. I suppose he wouldn't have considered it an issue worth mentioning. I wonder if he smoked himself? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 >Just guessing. They may well have, I suppose, but I was assuming mostly >because tobacco isn't widely native, to my understanding. But they could have >smoked something else. > >Chris Tobacco is native to America, so no one would smoke tobacco except 1. Folks who were getting trade goods and 2. American Indians Price regarded the folks in category 1 as in poor health, and didn't write about 2 (I think?). Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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